IM Server and Client Development.

Most of the programmers initiate this talk from the following questions:

1. How to ping a server?
2. How a computer will ping an IP?
3. How can we send messages to another computer by targeting Ip-Address.

All these questions leads to IM System Development.
The main goal of those programmers is to get information about the development of the IM-System.

The development of IM-System also involves networking so that's why programmers adopt such kind of behavior.

Every kind of service is specific to internet protocols. So for IM-Service you have to use the tcp/ip protocol.

Now what do you need to host IM service.
The most popular protocol XMPP/Jabber

I would like to provide you some useful links for opensource Jabber servers and Clients.

• Wikipedia
• Tigase
• Java Jabber Server
• Jabber Wiki

The client application process the commands to the jabber server using sockets. The most common technique is to use XML for data sharing and storage.

I hope that this article will help you a lot to open your own IM service.

Thanks.