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XMPP Roundup 13: software
Welcome to the XMPP software Roundup 13. As announced in the latest Roundup, we have split it into different parts. The first part covered articles, talks and events. This post covers new and updated software, the next one will cover XMPP services.

Openfire under the Apache license

The Openfire server is undergoing a change of license, from the GPL to the Apache 2.0 license. The next version with the updated license will be released in the near future.

Strophe.js 1.0

Jack Moffit has announced the release of version 1.0 of the Strophe.js library.

MatriX Mobile and MatriX for .NET released

Alexander Gnauck has released MatriX Mobile for the .NET Compact Framework, as well as MatriX for .NET.

asmack

The asmack library has been released. Basically, it a the smack library, adding SASL and DNS SRV for the Android platform.

Jorge

Zbyszek Zólkiewski has written Jorge, which is free PHP-based front-end for the mod_logdb message archiving system written by Oleg Palij.

Jabbim for Android

The Jabbim team has released an early version of Jabbim for Android, the Linux-based OS platform for mobile phones and devices from Google.

xeerkat

xeerkat is a P2P computing framework over XMPP. xeerkat is not a new project, but original and not previously covered by the XMPP Roundup.

XMPP Framework

XMPP Framework, using XMPPHP, brings XMPP features to Drupal: XMPP-Drupal users correlation and relationship, XWChat web chat client (based on JSJaC), MUC, and notifications. This module has been contributed by Darren Ferguson of OpenBand.

Legacy IM Connections via M-Link

Isode has announced that they are partnering with Zion Software to deploy the JBuddy XMPP Gateway for connectivity between Isode's M-Link server software and legacy IM networks.

XMPPKit

The Étoilé user environment for the GNUstep project is building in support for sending what they call "CoreObjects" over XMPP using their emerging XMPPKit; as a result they hope to enable collaborative editing, whiteboarding, and other interactive applications.

Libjingle in Chromium

Libjingle, the Google's opensource library for Jingle, has been committed in Chromium, the opensource base of the Chrome browser.

Spectrum

Spectrum is an XMPP gateway, released under the GPL license, using the libpurple and gloox libraries, coming from a Google Summer of Code project.

GWT bindings for the Strophe XMPP library

Johann Prieur has announced on his blog the availability through Bazaar of gwt-strophe, under the MIT/X/Expat License, a binding for Strophe, the XMPP library. It is now in its early stage, and need testing and bug reports.

RDFbus

The Ruby software under a BSD-like license RDFbus is a middleware for enabling RDF publish/subscribe payloads over XMPP and Stomp.

Tigase Server 4.3

Artur Hefczyc has released version 4.3 of the Tigase Server. It contains a lot of performance improvements, as well as new features, like monitoring, scripting, or roster versionning, and much more.

Device state and MWI via PubSub in Asterisk

Asterisk, the well-known opensource telephony platform, integrates a feature (at the time of writing, waiting for testing) enabling to broadcast the device states and the MWI (Message Waiting Indicator), using the XMPP's publish-and-subscribe mechanism.

Telepaatti

Telepaatti is IRC to Jabber/XMPP gateway compatible with MUC-protocol (Multi user chat). It allows you to join MUC-rooms and communicate with Jabber/XMPP users via your IRC client. Telepaatti acts as Jabber/XMPP client imitating IRC-server.

Emite

Emite is a GWT XMPP library (Google We Toolkit) under the LGPL v3 license.

Streaming Apple Events over XMPP

Dan Brickley has released a Ruby script that re-routes the Mac OS X Apple Remote event stream to XMPP.

ReaTiWe and PaaS

ReaTiWe (for "real-time web") is an application hosted on the Google App Engine (GAE), which is a "playground for all cool real-time-related stuff", including technologies such as XMPP, WebHooks, and PuSH (PubSubHubbub). It relies on PaaS for Presence-as-a-Service, which is using XMPP presence stanza for microblogging. Both ReaTiWe and [paas PaaS] source codes are published by Stoyan Zhekov.

Confbot: a Google Talk conference bot

Perry Lorier has written and released Confbot under the GPL license. It is a python bot that enables group chats to Gtalk (and XMPP) users. It has been written in the early days of Gtalk, back in 2005.

ejabberd_testing: automated testing for ejabberd modules

Eric Cestari has posted a short article on his blog, pointing to ejabberd_testing. The goal is is to be able to test ejabberd modules. It is released under the BSD license.

joom

Released under the Artistic and GPL licenses, joom is a collaborative brainstorming tool, similar to a group chat plus topics creation. First originality, the UI combines the personal roster, as well as the room roster. The other originality, is that the UI shows different views of the conversations: the regular stream of messages, and the active and inactive topic views, which filter out messages with certain hashtags. Thus it is possible to hold mulitple conversations in one room.

gloox 1.0

The famous gloox library, for clients and components, has been released in version 1.0, under the GPL license. This should not be confused with the glooxd libray, made for servers.

jctalk

Jongmyung Choi is coding the Smack-based jctalk instant messaging system that is able to monitor and control home appliances.

oai-pmh and xmpp

Interesting read, Ed Summers experiments oai-pmh over XMPP, where he takes advantage of XMPP to push updates, instead of constantly polling them. For the record, oai-pmh stands for The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

Clustering plugin for Openfire is now open source

Gaston Dombiak has announced the release of the Clustering plugin for Openfire as opensource, under the Apache 2.0 license.

Oslo Protocol

The Oslo protocol, released under a BSD license, describes a federated location sharing and proximity detection system, based on XMPP.

retepXMPP Server, Client & Library

retepXMPP is a suite of libraries for writing applications using the XMPP protocol, with which it is possible to create components, clients or even embedded servers.

Webpresence

Mahlon E. Smith as released a jQuery plugin that shows a dynamic XMPP badge, reflecting current presence information for a given XMPP account.

Prosody 0.6.0 and 1 year old

Prosody, which is one year old, has been published in version 0.6, bringing a telnet console, multi-sessions in MUC, stream compression, S2S encryption, per-host certificates, an importer for ejabberd MySQL dumps, and compatibility with ejabberd's vcard behaviour.

Musubi

Teruaki Gemmahas has developped Musubi, a Firefox extension using xmpp4moz, that lets you create online games and real-time apps in web pages.

Gajim 0.13

Yann Le Boulanger, aka Asterix, has announced the release 0.13 of the Gajim XMPP client, bringing BOSH, roster versionning, XHTML-IM sending, and many bug fixes.

OneWeb

ProcessOne has released OneWeb, an alpha Firefox extension (desktop and mobile), that lets you manage and share bookmarks between browsers, with interoperation with regular XMPP chat clients.

Coccinella 0.96.16 Released

Sander Devrieze has announced Coccinella 0.96.16, bringing a lot of bug fixes, as well as a tenth birthday.

Psi 0.14 is out

This time we've made sure Psi is not missed in the Roundup: Justin Karneges has announced the version 0.14 of the Psi XMPP client. It brings color options to the chat window, reason for kick/ban in groupchat, improved User Info window, support for Enchant as an alternative to Aspell, commandline interface now supports choosing profile and setting status, D-BUS interface now supports setting status and indicating sleep/wake, fixed voice calling compatibility bugs with Pidgin and Empathy, and of course various other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Haskell: XMPP and matsuri

matsuri is a ncurses XMPP client written on Haskell, published under the GPLv3 license by Kagami.

Yaxim

Yaxim is new XMPP client for the Android platform.

Juick for Android

Juick, the real-time blogging and social network platform based on XMPP, has a specific client on the Android platform.

Jabber Feed 0.5

Jehan has announced Jabber Feed 0.5 WordPress plugin, that lets articles and comments be posted on PubSub.

python-xmpp-server

python-xmpp-server speaks for itself, it has been developed by Medium.