Avi wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>
>> > Does anyone know if anyone is working on a library for the jabber
>> protocol?
>> 
>> What is Jabber?
>> 
>> Hal
>
>http://www.jabber.org
>
>It's a very open and well-designed instant-messaging system; it's mainly
>used just as ICQ or AIM is, but seems to have potential to be a lot
>more.  The protocol is XML-based, which means that good XML tools provide
>a decently high-level interface to jabber servers to begin with, but a
>solid Ruby library for Jabber would certainly be a Good Thing.

Avi directed me to this thread as I haven't been following this mailing list recently (just signed up again).  I have been playing around with Ruby and Jabber though it's certainly nothing I would call a library or anything.  I did a wrapper around the Ruby/XML package to make my life a little easier when dealing with XML streams and I'm playing around with writing some client stuff and services in the hopes of figuring out by using it what I would like a library to look like.

I was waiting until I'd had some more time to work on it and get something a little more thought out and actually worth showing before announcing anything but since you asked... :)

Basically, it does enough to allow me to play around but I'll need to add object for connections and stuff and objects to wrap all the data so you don't have to deal directly with the XMl as much.

Julian