Telepathy

Telepathy is a flexible, modular communications framework for desktop and mobile devices that enables real-time communication via pluggable protocol backends. Telepathy is a communications service that can be accessed by many applications (“clients”) simultaneously. This allows any application to access presence information, request a communication channel (potentially handled by another client), or provide collaboration features contact-to-contact. Telepathy provides protocol backends for the most popular protocols, including: Jabber/XMPP/Jingle, link-local XMPP, SIP and IRC via a unified D-Bus API. It also provides convenience libraries for GLib and Qt to simplify using the API from applications. Telepathy exposes the available real-time communications capabilities of each protocol and allows applications to deal with only the part that they are interested in. Telepathy Tubes : Tubes are contact-to-contact networking. Tubes enable one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many communication between contacts using either network sockets (stream tubes) or a private D-Bus bus (D-Bus tubes). This allows applications to support collaboration between users, with a minimal amount of effort on the part of both application developers and the end-user. Application developers can focus on their application protocols, without having to worry about networking, firewall traversal or service discovery. End users no longer have to configure collaboration accounts, share IP addresses or forward ports on their firewalls. Telepathy is modular . Each backend and client runs in a separate process, allowing for much greater security and resilience. It is suitable both for embedded and desktop environments.