Jabber integration in IntelliJ October 12, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : development, xmpp , add a commentOne of the most interesting additions to the recent IntelliJ 6.0 release is IDEtalk, a collaboration feature built upon Jabber/XMPP to enable chat and limited application sharing directly within the IDE; here’s the feature list (directly from JetBrain’s list):
- Instant Messaging client inside the IDE allowing to perform the following actions:
- Exchange messages right inside the IDE
- View users’ status
- User groups management
- Navigate and search through message history
- Code-related communications with quick access to the referenced code:
- Send “code pointer” — a reference to a particular point in the file with one-click navigation
- Send stacktrace with direct links to underlying source code
- Show difference between project files opened by two team members
- View a list of files opened in IntelliJ IDEA by any of the contacts
- Manage others’ access to the IDE project files
Having not tried it out just yet (but soon, I promise!) it is unclear to me whether it supports distributed editing of files in the way that SubEthaEdit, Google Docs & Spreadsheets (nee Writely) or Writeboard do. But it would be a great feature to support, especially for distributed teams.
Even more exciting is IntelliJoin, a recently announced collaboration between JetBrains and Jive Software, the developers of the Java XMPP server Wildfire (via Jive Talks). Essentially JetBrains and Jive Software are hosting an instance of Wildfire for use by developers using IntelliJ. You can use any other XMPP server of course (including the Google Talk servers I expect) but I wonder if IntelliJoin will provide more developer-focused features down the track. I’d love to see them support voice chat and deeper IntelliJ project/application sharing to the point where I can effectively pair-program with someone geographically separated from myself.
Other companies are also putting Google Talk/Jabber through its paces, such as JPMorgan and its AlgoAlert algorithmic trading alert tool.
Jabphone announced at ETel January 25, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : xmpp, telephony , add a commentAs speculated in a previous post there has already been one cool mashup of Google Talk, XMPP and SIP announced at ETel; Jabphone allows users of any libjingle-compatible XMPP client (primarily Google Talk but since libjingle has been open-sourced others are rapidly adding support) to call out to phones. (via O’Reilly Radar)
Also check out Ward Mundy’s tutorial on building a telephone reminder system for Asterisk.
Server-to-Server interop with Google Talk now live January 18, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : google, xmpp , 1 comment so farAs speculated by Melo, the server-to-server port of Google Talk is now live (via Om). The days of proprietary IM networks are now numbered. Or are they? Despite the breathless praise that many are heaping on Google (and don’t get me wrong, this is a GOOD THING) I think it will be a while before we see much migration away from MSN or YIM. The fact is, those networks and their clients have all sorts of additional ‘value-added’ ‘features’, such stock alerts, a million different smilies, parlour games, video chat, etc, etc that have hooked many of their users. If you are using messaging purely to CHAT however (now there’s an idea!), you should take a long look at what XMPP offers you.
I am eagerly looking forward to seeing the new applications that will be built on top of XMPP due to the broader take up given Google’s participation.