Re: [xwiki-devs] OpenFire xwiki integration?

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Denis Gervalle &lt;dgl(a)softec.lu&gt; wrote: I am the one responsible for xwiki-platform-chat :) OpenFire seems to be a big beast that is not easily embeddable. This means that you need to start a separate server, having a duplicated user-management and also manage to authenticate users that logs-in in XWiki also in the OpenFire server. Doing this using actual password could be quite hellish (and prone to security flaws). When I wrote the prototype I also investigated other solutions, like Tigase (http://www.tigase.org/) which is easily embeddable but has its own architecture for HTTP communication. Basically it starts its own HTTP server. I am talking about HTTP because my goal was to use HTTP interactions through the BOSH protocol in order to exchange information. What I ended up using was Vysper (http://mina.apache.org/vysper-project/index.html) which is a modular XMPP server, it's written in Java, it's easily embeddable, and it uses the Servlet architecture for its BOSH extension. It works. For the authentication I use the cookie-based authentication performed by XWiki. So if you log-in to XWiki you are automatically authenticated also in the XMPP subsystem. The prototype also supports connection using standard XMPP clients (like pidgin). In this case you have to provide a password. Everything is fine but there is a catch... Vysper is strongly tied to Jetty, so if you want to deploy it in tomcat it simply doesn't work. I opened some issues on their JIRA and apparently they've been solved so it might be interesting to check it out. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VYSPER-307 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VYSPER-309) For the UI part, I've added some <div> tags to some .vm and used the Strophe.js framework for the communication (http://strophe.im/strophejs/) -Fabio