I have learned about alternatives to CJP: There's a Jabber client
library on code.blitzaffe.com [3]. Its primary advantage over CJP is,
according to the website, that it's event-driven and doesn't wait for a
static time for the server to react upon requests, which makes it faster
and more stable at the same time. I've talked to the current CJP
maintainer and in his lack of time, he agreed that this should be the
successor of CJP. But it fails on PHP 5 and according to the author,
Steve Blinch, PHP 5 support has an undetermined schedule (he said this
in January 2007). No update until today.
Yeah, sorry, I've been pretty busy. I am still maintaining the library,
though, and I did have a PHP5-compatible version under development when
you contacted me, but it's taken me until now to find time to get it
done. :) It appears to be working alright with PHP5 now though.
Contact me off-list if you want to test out a copy of the code.
Steve