Is it possible to programmatically talk to MSN messenger / Live messenger?

Question

I\'ve been researching how to interact with the MSN messenger / Live messenger service programmatically and I can\'t find any real documentation on this. The documentation

Answer 1

Let me clarify what I'm going to use it for. We want a viable solution to be able to connect to MSN messenger from Flash, we can't connect directly because flash is a bit bonkers and doesn't like to open socket connections to a domain unless it's invited.

So we'll need to construct a proxy server in a proper language (which obviously we'd like to support other protocols too, so that'll work quite nicely with lib purple). We don't have any experience in house of C, so it would have been preferable to keep it in Java, which is what our team is experienced in, but there really don't seem to be any decent APIs for Java, or APIs that Java could interact with.

Nevertheless, thanks for the suggestions chaps. They look very useful.