The potential of decentralized technologies on the Internet is far greater than their counterparts. One such technology is
XMPP, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol or XMPP, is an open technology for real-time communication, which you find in instant messaging, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, and content syndication applications.
I am diving into the protocol while building commercial print applications that utilize the
Google Cloud Print protocol. Using the
Google Cloud Print Services API I can register commercial print applications as cloud printers on the Google Clound Print network.
Once I register a commercial cloud print on the network, then authenticate with a user using
Google authentication and authorization APIs the printer is ready for printing. Print jobs availability is then handled through
Google Talk, using a persistent XMPP connection.
I'm refreshing my memory on the
XMPP standard as well as researching four PHP XMPP classes:
Although XMPP has its roots in communication its fascinatng to see the innovation around it into other areas of real-time programming such as
cloud printing.
Even though the core technology is stable, the XMPP community continues to define various XMPP extensions, ther is also an active community of open-source and commercial developers further pushing the boundaries of whats possible with XMPP.
