Jingle: Jabber Does Multimedia

Instant messaging is a powerful tool for real-time communication and online collaboration. IM's early focus was text communication, but with the ubiquity of multimedia-enabled devices, there has been great interest in extending IM to support multimedia interactions. Jabber is an open-standards-based approach for IM. The article describes the development of new enhancements to Jabber that provide a set of multimedia extensions called Jingle