[jdev] ANN: strophe.jingle -- a jingle/webrtc plugin for strophe

[JC Brand]

On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 21:09 +0200, Philipp Hancke wrote:
> mattj thinks this ought to be announced here, too. Announcement text is 
> mostly courtesy of ralphm :-)
> 
> strophe.jingle is a webrtc connection plugin for strophe.js. Strophe is a 
> popular library for writing XMPP client applications that run on any of 
> the current popular browsers. Instead of the native TCP binding, 
> strophe.js uses BOSH (Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP, a 
> variant of long polling) to connect to an XMPP server. Besides enabling 
> anyone to build (federated) IM applications, this opens up the browser as 
> an addressable endpoint for two-way exchange of structured messages, 
> including presence and publish-subscribe applications.
> 
> Fork it at https://github.com/ESTOS/strophe.jingle
> 
> This plugin makes it possible to negotiate audio/video streams via XMPP 
> and then relinquish control to the WebRTC support of browsers like Firefox 
> and Chrome for the actual out-of-band media streams. With XMPP/Jingle you 
> get the authenticated, secured and federated media signaling, whereas 
> WebRTC gives you an API to set up the media streams using RTP/ICE/STUN and 
> provide access to cameras and microphones.
> Features:
> - mostly standards-compliant jingle, mapping from WebRTCs SDP to Jingle
>    and vice versa. Aiming for full compliance.
> - tested with chrome and firefox.
> - trickle and non-trickle modes for ICE (XEP-0176). Even supports early
>    candidates from peer using PRANSWER.
> - support for fetching time-limited STUN/TURN credentials through
>    XEP-0215. rfc5766-turn-server is a TURN server which implements this method.
>    a sample demonstrating the use of this to build a federated multi-user
>    conference (in full-mesh mode).
> 
> Thanks to my employer for the permission to release this under MIT 
> license.

This is wonderful news! Thanks for make this OSS and for the
announcement.

I've been looking into using Jingle and WebRTC for audo/video support
for converse.js: http://conversejs.org

I'll definitely give this a go.