[jdev] Jabber and Flash

[Sean Voisen]

I think this topic's been revisited so many times lately ... check the
archives.

Regarding Flash and XMPP - I believe that the XIFF Library project is the
only one that is currently still in active development when it comes to a
Flash/XMPP API. It's also the only one using ActionScript 2.

Servers that currently support Flash's datagram (non-streaming) XML
socket: Jabberd 1.4 and OpenIM 1.2.1 and possibly Jabber, Inc.s XCP.

The first final release of XIFF Library 2.0 should be around the end of
May. We're working hard on it, and it's very extensible. So, if you're
looking to do things like replace some CF remoting functionality, you
should be able to do it, especially since we're already looking at RPC
over XMPP (JEP-0009). The alpha version of XIFF Library 2 is available and
is stable. (I already built an IM client based on it.) The CVS is highly
unstable right now, but should stabilize in another two weeks.

The proxy idea is still in pre-planning, and I probably won't touch it
until the first release of XIFF - of course, anyone else is also welcome
to take the torch on that one. We do have some interested developers
though.

FWIW, hope that helps.

- Sean

Sean Voisen
Weblog: http://voisen.org
Flash/XMPP: http://xifflabs.com
XIFF 2.0: http://www.jabberstudio.org/projects/xiff