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Setting up an infrastructure for Instant Messaging" article series. In my previous tutorials, I showed you how to setup the Openfire IM Server and how to configure the Spark client in order to connect to that server. In this tutorial, I will show you how to add XMPP messaging capabilities to your own application. I will use the Smack library, an Open Source XMPP (Jabber) client library for instant messaging and presence. Smack is a pure Java library and can be embedded into your applications to create anything from a full XMPP client to simple XMPP integrations.

"XMPP Web Services for Java (xws4j) is an implementation of machine to machine communication over XMPP according to the XMPP Extension Protocol XEP-0244 - IO Data and others. Although the name "web services" implies network communication over HTTP all communication is carried out over XMPP. The communicated content is encoded in XML, according to customized definitions of input and output in XML Schemata. "

"The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organization whose primary mission is to define open protocols for presence, instant messaging, and real-time communication and collaboration on top of the IETF's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). You can read more here."