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How To Build an Openfire Chat Server On Debian 5

Posted by kdawson on from the take-aim-first dept.

palegray.net writes "Inspired by a recent Ask Slashdot, I've written a step-by-step tutorial for setting up an Openfire server on Debian Linux, for those interested in running their own open source collaboration server. Aimed at those just getting started with collaboration software, the tutorial shows precisely how to get Openfire up and running quickly on a base Debian install, and offers a basic feature tour of the software's plugin and IM gateway functionality."

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  1. Re:very odd by ianfs · · Score: 5, Informative

    FYI - XMPP is the Jabber protocol.

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  2. Re:What about a better conferencing solution? by jledhead · · Score: 3, Informative

    openfire whiteboard - http://www.version2software.com/blog/2007/03/whiteboard-sparkplug-released.html openfire more robust collaboration - maybe this http://www.igniterealtime.org/community/docs/DOC-1518 we use openfire+spark with SSO

  3. Re:What about a better conferencing solution? by gduquette · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The other day, I wanted to send a screenshot of an application I was working on to everyone in the MU chat"

    The Spark client that the same company offers has the ability to send screen-shots, actually you grab any part of the screen you want and send it. That is the one feature that is used a lot where I work.

  4. Re:How To's are so 90s.. by rufus+t+firefly · · Score: 3, Informative

    For the lazy people here, try this one: http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/64572

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  5. Re:Why not OpenJDK? by lgbr · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sadly, Openfire did have some issues when I used with icedtea6. The best example I can think of is the MSN transport. MSN simply wont connect because of the security algorithm it uses. This is caused by icedtea6 missing that algorithm which Sun's JDK has.

  6. Re:Why not OpenJDK? by palegray.net · · Score: 2, Informative

    As other posters have noted, I encountered issues with OpenJDK while I was writing the first draft of the tutorial. I'll probably go back and try it again, communicating the precise issues I ran across to the Openfire project. Hopefully they (or me, if I can find the time) can get the issues resolved, as I would have greatly preferred using a JVM in the "free" repositories.

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