NAME

Net::Jabber::Client - Jabber Client Library

SYNOPSIS

Net::Jabber::Client is a module that provides a developer easy access
to the Jabber Instant Messaging protocol.

DESCRIPTION

Client.pm uses Protocol.pm to provide enough high level APIs and 
automation of the low level APIs that writing a Jabber Client in 
Perl is trivial.  For those that wish to work with the low level 
you can do that too, but those functions are covered in the 
documentation for each module.

Net::Jabber::Client provides functions to connect to a Jabber server,
login, send and receive messages, set personal information, create
a new user account, manage the roster, and disconnect.  You can use
all or none of the functions, there is no requirement.

For more information on how the details for how Net::Jabber is written
please see the help for Net::Jabber itself.

For a full list of high level functions available please see 
Net::Jabber::Protocol.

Basic Functions

use Net::Jabber;

$Con = new Net::Jabber::Client();

$Con->Connect(hostname=>"jabber.org");

if ($Con->Connected()) {
  print "We are connected to the server...\n";
}

#
# For the list of available function see Net::Jabber::Protocol.
#

$Con->Disconnect();

METHODS

Basic Functions

    new(debug=>string)       - creates the Client object.  debug
        debugfh=>FileHandle)   should be set to the path for the debug
                               log to be written.  If set to "stdout" 
                               then the debug will go there.  Also, you
                               can specify a filehandle that already
                               exists and use that.

    Connect(hostname=>string, - opens a connection to the server listed
	    port=>integer)      in the host name value, on the port
                                listed.  The defaults for the two are
				localhost and 5222.

    Disconnect() - closes the connection to the server.

    Connected() - returns 1 if the Transport is connected to the server,
                  and 0 if not.

AUTHOR

By Ryan Eatmon in May of 2000 for http://jabber.org.

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.