What a summer for Apache Vysper, your friendly XMPP Server project. At first, we moved within Apache from Labs to MINA. Then we got our Google-Summer-of-Code hacker Michael Jackl, who worked successfully on the publish-subscribe extension. Currently Niklas Gustavsson from FtpServer fame is heavily working on Multi-user chat. Overall interest in the project increases.

Yet, we still have a long way to go from MINA's sandbox to a production ready server. Yet today, Vysper is easily embeddable and extendable while pubsub allows for many interesting applications outside the "Jabber world" of plain instant messaging.