title: How to implement XMPP to send push notifications
body: <p>I would like to use XMPP so that my application will send out updates to an android phone (1.5 and higher). I pretty much want to use XMPP to send push notifications to the phone.</p>
  
  <p>How would i go about achieving this. At the moment my web application is running on apache tomact with a number of servlets so the android phone can access information, but I'm finding it difficult understanding how I could implement XMPP so that I can push information from the server to the client (android phone). </p>
  
  <p>I have tested the below tutorial
  <a href="http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/" rel="noreferrer">Example of XMPP with Google ID login</a></p>
  
  <p>It uses Google ID logins. But i need to use my webapplication to do what google implements. 
  Any ideas?</p>