April 2010

Jabber (XMPP) and AIM (OSCAR)

To integrate with existing social networks, the team at Zorap defined a mechanism that passed structured information via instant messages. My role was to implement Jabber (XMPP) and OSCAR, the AOL instant messenger protocol, in a portable and robust fashion.

Zorap ran as a browser extension, so could be instantiated and destroyed many times within the life of a process. Any code it used had to be robust, and could not depend on operating system facilities to dispose of resources like network sockets.

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