Net::Jabber v1.0a

The Jabber Instant Messaging project is an Open Source project seeking
to provide a complete cross protocol messaging solution.  The problem
with current IM solutions is that they are all proprietary and cannot
talk to each other.  Jabber seeks to get rid of those barriers by
allowing a Jabber client to talk with an AOL user, or an IRC chat room,
or any number of other programs.

For more information about the Jabber project visit http://www.jabber.org.

Net::Jabber is a collection of Perl modules that provide a Perl Developer
access to the Jabber protocol.  Using OOP modules we provide a clean
interface to writing anything from a full client to a simple protocol
tester.

Support is planned for allowing Transports to be written in Perl so that
prototyping can be done before the actual program is written.

Ryan Eatmon
Jabber Perl Team Leader
reatmon@ti.com




REQUIREMENTS
  - XML::Stream    - Handles the connection between the Client and the Server.

SUGGESTIONS
  - Digest::SHA1   - Encrypted authorization so that your password is not sent
                     over unsecure XML.
  - Time::Timezone - Automatic TimeZone calculation for the iq:time namespace.

INSTALLATION

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make install

STATUS

  This module is mostly done.  The newest features are in beta (see CHANGES),
but the other functions should be stable.


Please send any bug reports to reatmon@ti.com.
04/17/2000