XMPP: The Definitive Guide

Preface; Why XMPP?; Is This Book for You?; Getting the Most Out of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; About the Examples; Using Code Examples; Safari?? Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; An Overview of XMPP; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 What Can You Do with XMPP?; 1.2 Brief History; 1.3 Open Source and Open Standards; 1.4 Extensibility; 1.5 Summary; Chapter 2: Basics of XMPP; 2.1 Architecture; 2.2 Addresses; 2.3 Streaming XML; 2.4 Communication Primitives; 2.5 Hello Hello World World: Building a Basic XMPP Application; 2.6 Summary; The XMPP Toolkit; Chapter 3: Presence; 3.1 Is Anybody Home?; 3.2 Authorization Required: The Subscription Handshake; 3.3 How Presence Is Propagated; 3.4 Availability Status; 3.5 Presence Priorities; 3.6 Directed Presence; 3.7 Going Offline; 3.8 Rich Presence; 3.9 Presence and Rosters; 3.10 Using Presence; 3.11 Summary; Chapter 4: Instant Messaging; 4.1 I Think, Therefore IM; 4.2 Chat Sessions; 4.3 Are You There? Chat State Notifications; 4.4 Looks Matter: Formatted Messages; 4.5 Who Are You? vCards; 4.6 Talk to the Hand: Blocking and Filtering Communication; 4.7 More Messaging Extensions; 4.8 Summary; Chapter 5: Discovering the World; 5.1 Items and Info; 5.2 Using Service Discovery with Servers and Services; 5.3 Using Service Discovery with Clients; 5.4 Summary; Chapter 6: Data Forms; 6.1 Basic Structure; 6.2 Using Data Forms; 6.3 Defining Your Terms: Form Types; 6.4 Including Media in Data Forms; 6.5 Summary; Chapter 7: Multi-Party Interactions; 7.1 Starting the Party; 7.2 Groupchat Basics; 7.3 Crowd Control; 7.4 What???s in a Nick?; 7.5 Configure This!; 7.6 Privacy, Security, and All That Jazz; 7.7 MUC As a Data Transport; 7.8 Summary; Chapter 8: Publish/Subscribe; 8.1 Why It Matters; 8.2 Quickstart; 8.3 Subscriptions; 8.4 Publishing and Receiving Notifications; 8.5 Payloads: To Send or Not to Send?; 8.6 Items: To Store or Not to Store?; 8.7 Discovering Nodes; 8.8 Node Management; 8.9 Personal Eventing: PubSub Simplified; 8.10 Summary; Chapter 9: Jingle: Jabber Does Multimedia; 9.1 To Instant Messaging and Beyond; 9.2 The Jingle Model; 9.3 Making a Call; 9.4 A Swarm of NATs; 9.5 Jingle on ICE; 9.6 Additional Jingle Actions; 9.7 Summary; Chapter 10: Sending Binary Data; 10.1 Starting Small: Bits of Binary; 10.2 Moving On Up: Transferring Midsize Files In-Band; 10.3 Thinking Big: Sending Large Files Out-of-Band; 10.4 Negotiating File Transfer; 10.5 Summary; Chapter 11: Remote Commands; 11.1 Controlling Clients; 11.2 Providing Custom Commands; 11.3 Advanced Workflows: SOAP, RPC, IO Data; 11.4 Summary; Chapter 12: Connection Methods and Security; 12.1 Negotiating an XMPP Stream; 12.2 Authentication Options; 12.3 Encrypting the Connection; 12.4 Server Federation; 12.5 Server Components; 12.6 BOSH: XMPP over HTTP; 12.7 Serverless Messaging; 12.8 XMPP Security; 12.9 Summary; Putting It All Together; Chapter 13: Design Decisions; 13.1 Is XMPP the Right Choice?; 13.2 How the XMPP Community Works; 13.3 Writing XMPP Software; 13.4 Extending XMPP; 13.5 Summary; Chapter 14: Building an XMPP Application; 14.1 The CheshiR Microblogging Platform; 14.2 First Sprint: The CheshiR XMPP IM Bot; 14.3 Second Sprint: Configuring the CheshiR XMPP IM Bot; 14.4 Third Sprint: Scaling the CheshiR XMPP Service Using a Server Component; 14.5 Fourth Sprint: Registering with the CheshiR Server Component; 14.6 Fifth Sprint: Extending the Server Component with Rosters; 14.7 Future Sprints; 14.8 A CheshiR Server Module or Dedicated Server?; 14.9 Summary; Appendixes; A Guide to XMPP Specifications; XMPP RFCs; XMPP Extension Protocols; Humorous XEPs; XMPP Compliance Suites; Popular Servers, Clients, and Libraries; Servers; Clients; Libraries; Further Practical Considerations; Getting Started; Debugging Tools; Network Setup; Glossary; Bibliography; Colophon;