JabberBeans (news) update!

First of all, I must apologize for a long delay between updates. Over the last month I've graduated college, moved twice, and have now started a new job here in Denver, Colorado. Twenty or so days of the last month I haven't even had access to a computer.

The good news is that now JabberBeans is somewhat of a professional project - I am maintaining it as part of my new work duties. Anyone who examines CVS will see a lot of changes getting ready to be launched:

- Support for many new extensions, including Searching
- A few code optimizations (nothing major quite yet)
- Better support for handling multiple simultaneous connections.

and most importantly - A new license! Many people have been waiting for this, the license is now under a MPL-style license. Pointers to more details can be found in the source. This will hopefully allow a lot more flexability in what people can do with the code.

Finally, I've been working on basic support for server-to-server communication, and for usage of Jabberbeans as a layer for writing server components for the new, in-development Jabber server architecture. This code isn't in CVS yet.

Expect a 0.8.2 preview soon, followed quickly by a final 0.8.2 (testing is needed still for the code changes), then 0.9.0 as the server to server code is merged in.

In the meantime - feel free to email me with any questions. And, if anyone feels like writing vCard support, go ahead and send me a patch- I'll owe you one :)