Ben Werdmuller·Jun 12, 2009 XMPP: powering the real-time, really live web
When Google Wave was previewed last week, most people focused on its Gmail-like user interface and the slick way it handled collaborative spaces in real time. What was more exciting from a web technology point of view, although much less sexy, was the underlying protocol: Google Wave is built on top of an extended version of an open source real-time data standard called XMPP (aka Jabber when it’s used as an instant messaging context). This means that anyone can build servers and end-user applicaSoftware development·Web
