Mobile Jabber IM: a wireless-based text chatting system

With the rapid advancement of wireless network technologies, wireless communications and mobile-based information services are changing people´s life style. How to provide mobile users with cost-effective wireless information services is becoming a hot topic for wireless vendors. Although there are a number of Internet-based instant messaging solutions, there are no published articles addressing how to develop wireless Internet instant messaging solutions. This paper reports recent research and development efforts in constructing a wireless-based text chatting system, Mobile Jabber IM. It discusses the system architecture, design, and technologies. The paper demonstrates the system application examples and shares the development and implementation experiences.