Notes on XMPP Prototype

I've been recently investigating XMPP for Cloud Computing. After reading the specifications and learning basically what it is all about, I've begun working on a prototype that would accomplish similar tasks that I accomplish with mesh4x . Basically the goal is offline/online synchronization. So far, I've played around with Jabber, tigase, and a couple of other servers. I need basically server and client support. So far, I like OpenFire and Smack. Right now I have code written in Java that basically creates a chat between two users. I created two accounts at jabber.iitsp.com and wrote some basic code. Now, my two clients are communicating by chatting with one another.

My next steps:

1. Use OpenFire locally as the server
2. Write code that will do what I do with mesh4x
3. Hook it into Google Maps

Basic code:

XMPPConnection connection = new XMPPConnection("jabber.iitsp.com");
connection.connect();
connection.login(userName, password);
Chat chat = connection.getChatManager().createChat(person, new MessageListener() {

public void processMessage(Chat chat, Message message) {
System.out.println("Received message: " + message.getBody());
}
});

chat.sendMessage("Hi there!");

I do a bit more in my code to keep the thread running and to recognize who the user is and respond with a customized message but this is the code that actually sends and receives the message. This is taken from the Smack documentation as a basic test. If you want to just test it one way, create an account at Trillian using XMPP as the protocol with one of your user accounts: user1@jabber.iitsp.com. Then set up your Java code as user2 who wants to send to user1. Your trillian client will pop up your message.