There’s now a test Jabber server at test.nomic.net:5222. You can connect to
it by running the Player with the option “-DenableJabber=true”.
However:
- There are clearly some things still to be worked out on our end. When I
tried to connect, I immediately got an exception, reported here:
sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d … tid=594231
- I’m unimpressed in various ways with Openfire, already. Their documentation
is poor. (E.g., they neglect to tell you what ports you need to open in your
firewall, which is a necessary piece of information if you want your XMPP
server to be accessible. There is also nothing anyplace which explains that
you have to restart Openfire after you create the admin account in order to be
able to log in with it, and the errors in the logs make it look like you’re
just mistyping your password.) They don’t seem to be sufficiently together to
have a proper Fedora RPM (the one they have on their site for download is a
monster, as it supplies all of its own dependencies rather than use anything
sufficiently new which is already on the system) and didn’t show much interest
in working with two Fedora maintainers who offered to help with packaging).
That makes the maintenance burden for us higher, since then we can’t rely on
Fedora’s maintainers to keep Openfire up to date for us. They also seem not to
be the XMPP server that the OSS community has coalesced around—I see way
more talk about jabberd2 and ejabberd than Openfire. It looks like Openfire is
going to suck up a gargantuan amount of RAM, as well.
If all we need is a standards-compliant XMPP server, I’d be all for switching
to something else.
