That's a nice idea. There are other ways to skin that cat: if you have a server-side library that speaks perfect jabber, your web client can invoke it from afa

That's a nice idea. There are other ways to skin that cat: if you have a server-side library that speaks perfect jabber, your web client can invoke it from afar. The library's API should work the same either way. Heck, if it's a Java library use GWT RPC.