You can easy write bots and use it over the jabber network.

jabber-querybot connects a jabber account and wait for messages. If a message comes in, it forward it to your self programmend modul. The return string of your module, jabber-querybot send it back to the jabber sender.

It is designed to be re-usable and to make it easy to write small Jabber bots that do one thing and do it well. A simple concept with a lot of examples and experiences are implemented.