Tinder

Tinder addresses a small group of users that are on the lookout for a library for their Java-based application projects that require XMPP capabilities. XMPP, which stands for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, represents a protocol for communications especially created for instant messaging computer programs that revolves around the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

First things first, Java programmers have a great array of possibilities as they can choose from multiple integrated development environments (IDE) to work in as well as the standalone programming language that is used all over the world in so many devices that they easily step across the billion line. A Java library, such as Tinder, is pure gold for any programmers that wants to rapidly integrate various technology-specific potential into their projects.

On the other hand, the XMPP protocol is the foundation stone of many applications these days, such as Coccinella, Gajim, Jitsi, Kadu, Miranda IM, Pidgin, Psi, Tkabber or Trillian. Moreover, this certain communications protocol also empowers cross-platform software, thus the benefits are tremendous, at least in a multi-OS community with computers running Windows, Mac OS X or one of the several Linux distributions.

What Tinder tries to accomplish is the implementation of numerous XMPP stanzas as well as components within programs. Its source code is a mix between two other implementations previously released by the same company. Thus, with Tinder you get the feature set and the functionality from both the Openfire and Whack XMPP applications.

Overall, the Java-based XMPP entity packing the Tinder library can prove to be the missing puzzle piece for programmers that are working on various projects with one goal in common - the implementation of XMPP characteristics within their computer programs.