Re: [discuss] Which IM to support first

Well, it depends on how rudimentary you want your client to be. Writing 
your own jabber implementation would probably be a waste of time and 
even libs for ICQ or MSN like joscarlib & msnm-lib are already working - 
even though joscarlib doesn't support the latest protocol versions of 
ICQ and msnm-lib's javadoc comments are Korean.

mfg
gregorio

Joey Libby schrieb:
> well, i know how to write a rudimentary MSN client... so i think i can 
> hack that up no problem... jabber should be the same, icq, dunno
> 
> On 5/13/05, *Gregorio Roper* <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Personally, I'd go with jabber, because the protocol is open, extensible
>     and can easily be re-used for chats and instant messages on the
>     gnutella
>       network.
> 
>     In addition you may find that www,echomine.org <http://echomine.org>
>     provides an excellent API
>       to start with, whereas the java implementations of the ICQ & MSN
>     protocols are rather poor.
> 
>     mfg
>     gregorio
> 
>     Joey Libby schrieb:
>      > Are there any demographics on which IM client is most used so I can
>      > start working on that one first?
>      >
>      > --
>      > Joey Libby
>      > UNB Computer Science
>      > Year 5

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