

It works similar to email servers in which anyone can download the Jabber server application and run it in their server to offer Jabber. Unlike these commercial services, Jabber is a decentralized network. Jabber is an open alternative to consumer IM services. Melvin Rivera has created an article, " iChat to MSN Through Jabber", that walks you through the entire process of creating a Jabber account, configuring it for the services you want to use and then configuring iChat and your Address Book to allow you to add all of your buddies across different IM services: The Jabber website lists a number of "pros" including decentrailization, exensibility, security, and stability.

The real neat thing is that while most people solve these issues on the client (both Trillian and Adium use the GAIM libraries to achieve this), Jabber tries to solve this on the server through various channel (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!) plugins. Jabber's goal is to standardize and improve on instant messaging as well as unify the multitude of formats available from different companies. What most people don't realise that iChat ships with support for another protocol called Jabber. The Jabber project was started by Jeremie Miller in early 1998.IChat's biggest downfall is that it's only interoperable with AIM (and ICQ via AIM) and Bonjour. Jabber s asynchronous instant messaging (IM) platform is similar to IM systems such as AIM, ICQ and MSN but is open source, extensible through XML, decentralized (allowing anyone to run a Jabber server), and any Jabber server can be isolated from the public Jabber network in order to increase security. (3) When capitalized as Jabber, an open XML protocol for message and presence exchange in real time between two points on the Internet. To prevent this, jabber control should be added to the hardwareto make the circuitry incapable of sending information for more than 150 milliseconds (approximately 1500 bytes). (2) A sent data packet greater than the maximum 1518 bytes specified in IEEE 802.3. This may halt the entire network from transmitting data beacuse other devices will perceive the network as busy. (1) An error in which a faulty device (usually a NIC ) continuously transmits corrupted or meaningless data onto a network.
