Jingle is an extension to

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(Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) which adds

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(P2P) session control (signaling) for

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interactions such as in

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(VoIP) or

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communications. It was designed by

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and the

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. The multimedia streams are delivered using the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). If needed,

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is assisted using

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(ICE). , the proposed Jingle specification had not yet been approved by the XMPP Standards Foundation, but is now a Draft Standard, meaning: "''Implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard.''" The libjingle library, used by

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to implement Jingle, has been released to the public under a BSD license. It implements both the current standard protocol and the older, pre-standard version.

Clients supporting Jingle

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. *

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(using

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framework) *

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from 0.14 (not on Windows yet) *

for Gmail, Android, Windows *

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for Apple OS X *

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(multiplatform support using

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) * KDE Telepathy (using

framework) * Kopete *

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(via JGTalk plugin). * Monal IM-Client for

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* QIP Infium * Yate/YateClient supports Jingle in both client and server mode, audio and file transfer, also call transfer and DTMF. Though not an instant messaging client,

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uses Jingle as one of the screen sharing means.

Notes

References

External links

XMPP Standards Foundation
{{Instant messaging Instant messaging protocols VoIP protocols XMPP