XSockets is an open, lightweight, and highly portable library of universal and extensible super sockets for point-to-point communication. It provides a unified API for many communication methods between programs and devices. Currently, many methods of point-to-point communication are well established, like TCP/IP sockets, serial links, named pipes, infrared, or Bluetooth connections. XSockets is meant to provide a single API that can be used for of these methods and more.