Hi Gary,

Tinder provides an implementation of XMPP entities, such as XMPP stanzas (Packet.class), Jabber identifiers (JID.class) and components (Component.class). It does not include any logic related to routing of stanzas, which is a key responsibility of a XMPP server implementation.

If you want to implement this logic yourself, and are looking for a library that provides XMPP building blocks, yes, you could use Tinder. If you're looking for an existing implementation of an XMPP server, I would suggest you'd have a look at Openfire, the XMPP server implementation featured on this website.

You can find more information in RFCs 3920 and 3921 (see http://xmpp.org/rfcs/ ). They define the core XMPP protocol.

Hope this helps!