An entry about using the XIFF API to get your Flex application talking XMPP. If you don’t know what I’m talking about no need to read on really. Some definitions XMPP is an open protocol for instant messaging, that runs the Jabber network and Google talk. Flex 2 is a programmer-friendly way of developing Flash applications, using ActionScript 3, which looks a lot like Java. XIFF is an ActionScript 3 API for XMPP. If you put those three items together you get, yes, a paradigm shift in web base...