Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
by trwired on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @08:48AM
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What they did was discontinue support for their old desktop client. Third party clients still use XMPP to connect with Hangouts. More on the subject could be read here: http://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-googl...
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Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
by teraflop on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @09:37AM
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If you read that blog post fully, it says that you can't connect to Hangouts with XMPP. See also: https://developers.google.com/talk/
"We announced a new communications product, Hangouts, in May 2013. Hangouts will replace Google Talk and does not support XMPP."
You can still connect to Google Talk (not Hangouts) with a third-party client, but Google has not kept up with developments in the standard (particularly the requirement for server-to-server encryption) and is no longer interoperable with most other providers.
Re:Mozilla not accepted for Google Summer of Code 2015
by trwired on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @10:25AM
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Apologies for merging the two in my head. However, as of now, you can still connect to Google Talk and the shutdown that was mentioned did not affect third party clients. The conclusion is that XMPP is still used at Google to some extent (although there is no way of telling how well or how long it will be used and supported in the future, but that is beside the point).