Tapioca: an open source framework for VoIP
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Brazilian developers of the INdT rolled out a new beta version of Tapioca, 0.3.0. This project was named after the crop probably because: 1) those guys are eating it a lot(!) over there, 2) it’s one of the most popular basic ingredient that sustains various recipes and would be fine for a project aiming to provide a VoIP framework to developers.
“Tapioca is a framework, and not a application like Ekiga. This means, that you can build your own application to talk to GTalk or any service Tapioca provides using the framework,” explained André Moreira Magalhães. For instance, Tapioca could help developers to incorporate some VoIP features into the OpenOffice suite. Or complete Ekiga current functionalities.
The recent release, Tapioca 0.3.0, is claimed to provide full interoperability with GoogleTalk, NAT traversal support, presence awareness, and of course, many bug fixes. Its audio quality comes from the Gstreamer audio codecs, a very popular and efficient framework in the Linux world.
Tapioca was originally created to provide VoIP for mobile devices, especially for the Maemo open source platform that works on Nokia 7710 Internet tablets. Why Nokia? Simply because its core developers are all members of the Nokia Institute of Technology, which is a non profit research organization sponsored by Nokia, and more precisely, part of the Open Source Mobile Technology Center, located in Recife, northeast of Brazil.
Tapioca project page André Moreira Magalhães’ blog
Mar 30, 2006 | By Nuno
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