[jdev] Looking for a good Java API

[Ford, Peter]

I haven't got through all the Muse documentation yet but what I've seen
so far looks good and I have to say that the documentation is more
comprehensive and better organized than the others I've seen. Chris, I
will be contacting you offline shortly with some questions.

--Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-bounces at jabber.org 
> [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org] On Behalf Of Chris Chen
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 12:09 PM
> To: Jabber software development list
> Subject: Re: [jdev] Looking for a good Java API
> 
> You can also try Echomine Muse at http://open.echomine.org/
> 
> I recently released a new version of Muse so you can try it out.  And 
> with the recent new changes to Echomine, I would have to disagree and 
> say that Muse has better documentation than most other Java 
> APIs at the 
> moment.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:09 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 04:58:28PM +0100, Phil Wilson wrote:
> >>>> support. If anyone
> >>>> on the list can recommend a good alternative (i.e. simple to use,
> >>>> reliable and well documented) I'd really appreciate it.
> >>
> >> I've written apps using alternately Jabberbeans, Yaja! and 
> Smack, and 
> >> Smack
> >> is *by far* the most reliable and well documented. Smack isn't 
> >> necessarily
> >> the best for writing components (or wasn't when I last 
> used it, but I
> >> believe they've done more work in that area since), but 
> its overall 
> >> XMPP
> >> support is superior to everything else I've used.
> >>
> >> Unless anyone has a better suggestion (I've never used Marbles, for
> >> instance), I'd love to hear it, because I'd be pretty surprised :)
> >
> > Smack is usually recommended for client development. JSO is usually
> > recommended for component development. Or at least that's what I've
> > seen on the lists (I'm not a Java guy myself).
> >
> > http://jso.jabberstudio.org/
> >
> > Smack and JSO are the most modern, up-to-date libs for Jabber/XMPP
> > development in Java. Jabberbeans, Yaja, Marbles, etc. are all older
> > libs that I don't think people would recommend these days.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > /psa
> >
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