ICQ / Messenger

| Does anyone have some experience with an (let's say java based)
| ICQ/messenger software ?

It's important on which platform (java/symbian/type of the mobilephone) you
want to use the messenger.
Symbian app's will only work on the specific symbian plaforms, many Java
clients require raw socket support (e.g. Mobicq, mJabber), which is not
included the MIDP 1.0 specification, so only some phones will support raw
sockets. Other clients will run on every Java capable phone and communicate
through a HTTP-Gateway (e.g. cMessenger) and you have to tell them your ICQ
account password as well as they are only capable of doing continuous
polling updates, which will create some artificial communication delay and
produces more traffic you have to pay for.

I'm currently working on an Java MIDP 1.0 Jabber client (which also supports
ICQ, AIM etc), which will communicate through a gateway _without_ polling
for new messages every X seconds by using _one_ permanent HTTP connection.
But I'm not finished with it and I don't have the time to finish it until my
holiday in mid february.

Greets,
-Thomas

Thomas Wittek wrote:
> | Does anyone have some experience with an (let's say java based)
> | ICQ/messenger software ?
>
> It's important on which platform (java/symbian/type of the mobilephone) you
> want to use the messenger.
> Symbian app's will only work on the specific symbian plaforms, many Java
> clients require raw socket support (e.g. Mobicq, mJabber), which is not
> included the MIDP 1.0 specification, so only some phones will support raw
> sockets. Other clients will run on every Java capable phone and communicate
> through a HTTP-Gateway (e.g. cMessenger) and you have to tell them your ICQ
> account password as well as they are only capable of doing continuous
> polling updates, which will create some artificial communication delay and
> produces more traffic you have to pay for.
>
> I'm currently working on an Java MIDP 1.0 Jabber client (which also supports
> ICQ, AIM etc), which will communicate through a gateway _without_ polling
> for new messages every X seconds by using _one_ permanent HTTP connection.
> But I'm not finished with it and I don't have the time to finish it until my
> holiday in mid february.
>
> Greets,
> -Thomas
>

Very interesting.
Please, write an annouce about it in this forum when you're finished.
Thx.
(C U in February...)

thx!!!!! nice omne