I made the mistake of purchasing this book without thoroughly looking through it. I saw some of the code samples and it looked interesting. I was primarily drawn to it because of the use of Jabber, which is referred to prominently on the back cover and in the first chapter.The actual book is pretty bad. As a previous reviewer stated, the editing is horrible. Many of the sentences make no sense and go back and forth through past and present tense.
The system that the authors built and describe in the book is not a Jabber solution. They built their own IM system based on web services and basically built an adapter to link up to a Jabber server. They offer no reasons why they do not implement a full Jabber server/client system. Their examples make no sense.
I highly recommend that you stay away from this book.
Product Description
* Complete instant messaging applications with design specifications, flow diagrams and source code with line-by-line explanation.
* Includes 2 different Jabber-compliant IM solutions - Java based and .NET based with C#.
* Each solution makes heavy use of web services.
* The IM client is extended beyond the desktop to include handheld wireless devices.
ABOUT THE CD-ROM
CD ROM includes fully functioning IM systems built in the book, along with complete source code and additional 3rd party development tools.
From the Back Cover
Create Tomorrow's Instant Messaging Applications Today
In this unique guide, a crack team of software engineers delivers the programming solutions and source code you need to jump start a Java- or C#-based instant messaging project using the Jabber protocol. With flow charts and line-by-line analysis of a professional-quality instant messaging system, they show you how to solve typical IM programming challenges - and create your own Jabber application using Java or C#, Web services, XML, ADO.NET, J2ME, and other cutting-edge technologies.
Take an In-Depth Look at Professional-Grade Instant Messaging Applications
- Java instant messaging server module
- C# instant messaging server module
- Java instant messaging client module
- C# instant messaging client module
- J2ME mobile client extension
- Integrate instant messaging applications with Web services
- More than 14,000 lines of documented code
The CD-ROM features:
- Jabber-compatible instant messaging system, in both Java and C# versions, with a J2ME mobile extension
- Java 2 Software Development Kit Standard Edition, version 1.4 for Windows
- Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition, Wireless Toolkit 1.0.3
- Forte for Java, release 3.0, Community Edition
- Tomcat
- Xerces
- kXML
Note: All software tested at the Dreamtech Software Research Lab
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