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how_jabber_xmpp_works

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Jabber it's a open system for Instant Messaging. Jabber uses a protocol called XMPP. It's a distributed system, that means that there aren't a single server or a centralized service where everybody has to have an account. There are multiple servers and providers, like on email. You can connect with your client to your provider's server and talk with another people from another provider. The servers will take care of exchange the messages between the providers.

You can connect to servers with a lot of clients, like:

And there are also lot's of servers, like:

Remember that being a open system, you can even setup your own server and become part of the network. For that, you can use some of the open source server implementations:

The communications between clients and servers are protected with TLS. That means that the communication between users and their servers is secret and nobody can read it.

Servers can have additional services rather than messaging and presence. Most servers have chatrooms (Jabber is not only one-to-one communiation), others have too gateways to open networks (like IRC) and to closed ones (MSN, Yahoo!, AIM)

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