[Kolab-devel] XMPP integration in Kolab web client

[Enrico Tagliavini]

If I can share my (still non) experience I would suggest to have a
look at Metronome http://www.lightwitch.org/metronome (Wikipedia page
also available if you wish).

It is a non experience because I still have to try it. At work we use
openfire....... don't go for it. It works, it supports LDAP, but you
can't debug it. If something breaks good luck. I was going to install
something else for my personal Kolab instance so I searched a bit, and
other than ejabberd I found this Metronome,and, since it is the used
and recommended one, I also discovered jappix and movim, two very
interesting applications which might benefit kolab integration in the
future who knows. Personally I'm going to try jappix alongside
metronome. The main reason is explained here
https://github.com/jappix/jappix/wiki/XmppServer .

It seems to be very light and support a wide range of feature. Worth a
look imho.

Kind regards
Enrico

On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 23. January 2014 15.31.00 Thomas Brüderli wrote:
>> Dear all
>>
>> I'd like to introduce you to a possible path how to integrate XMPP into
>> the Kolab web client for those how have a Jabber server running along
>> with their Kolab installation.
>>
>> This is what you need to get started:
>>
>> * A Kolab 3.1 installation with Roundcube 1.0
>> * A Jabber server authenticating against the same LDAP service as Kolab
>> * The converse.js plugin for Roundcube [1]
>> * BOSH support enabled or a BOSH proxy such as punjab [2]
>
> What server recommendations do you have for people? I tried to install
> ejabberd in Debian Wheezy but surprisingly found it to be uninstallable:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516718#121
>
> I see that there are a few more options in Debian Testing, notably:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/jabberd2
> http://packages.debian.org/jessie/yate
>
> And maybe ejabberd is fixed in that distribution as well.
>
> [...]
>
>> It would be nice to have out-of-the-box XMPP for Kolab.org 3.2. The XMPP
>> integration preferably would become part of the Kolab setup routine,
>> namely pykolab. Extending pykolab is quite easy. There's already a set
>> of different setup modules that can be used as an example for adding an
>> xmpp module [5].
>
> I could probably contribute something here, but it's likely to start out life
> on my own branch of pykolab. But I won't be doing anything before I've
> installed an XMPP server, of course.
>
> Paul
>
>> [1] https://github.com/priyadi/roundcube-converse.js-xmpp-plugin/
>> [2] https://github.com/twonds/punjab
>> [3] https://github.com/priyadi/roundcube-converse.js-xmpp-plugin/issues/6
>> [4] https://conversejs.org/docs/html/index.html#connection-manager
>> [5] http://git.kolab.org/pykolab/tree/pykolab/setup
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