https://www.ejabberd.im/node/3884 en https://www.ejabberd.im/node/3884#comment-55356 <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>What is the benefits working with ejabberd compare to openfire? </p></div> <p>This aren't direct differences or benefits, not an exhaustive list, just some generic points I consider nice:</p> <ul> <li>Low CPU consumption. All design decisions when developing ejabberd always care first about computational performance. </li><li>Stability: clients may crash, the program may have bugs, but in any case the server keeps running for the other users. </li><li>Primarily configured using config file </li><li>Simple WebAdmin for managing users, modules, ... </li><li>Clustering support: install ejabberd in several machines, setup them as a cluster and let the client load spread among them </li><li>ejabberd commands (to manage the server, accounts, rosters, MUC, Vcard, ...) can be called using shell program, XMLRPC, or REST. </li><li>Contributions: there are many other features available as <a href="http://www.ejabberd.im/contributions">contributed modules</a> </li></ul> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>Does it come with live chat </p></div> <p>I don't know what 'live chat' means.</p> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>and ssl connection? </p></div> <p>Yes, ejabberd supports both the old SSL and the new STARTTLS. I'm almost sure Openfire also supports both of them, because all XMPP servers support at least the new STARTTLS encryption.</p> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>connect to public gateways like msn? </p></div> <p>ejabberd doesn't include transports/gateways. You can install XMPP gateways (for example <noindex><a href="http://spectrum.im/" rel="nofollow" >Spectrum</a></noindex>) in the same machine and connect them to ejabberd (<a href="http://www.ejabberd.im/tutorials-transports">some tutorials</a>).</p> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>desktop and web apps like spark and sparkweb? </p></div> <p>ejabberd doesn't include XMPP clients. If spark and sparkweb are XMPP clients, then they will work with ejabberd, like any other desktop or web XMPP clients.</p> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author">Quote:</div> <p>I am not familar with ejabberd.<br /> Would love to hear what is the difference between the two. Currenly we are using openfire 3.6.3. </p></div> <p>You can install ejabberd in your personal machine, just for playing and testing it.</p> <p>Later in some days/weeks, if you finally decide any migration to ejabberd or any other server, it would be useful for ejabberd developers and other wanabee-migration-admins if you comment in this thread what did you decide and why.</p> <p>For example, I'm curious what will be your opinion on <noindex><a href="http://www.tigase.org/" rel="nofollow" >Tigase</a></noindex> (a Java server, like Openfire).</p> Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:44:51 +0000 mfoss comment 55356 at https://www.ejabberd.im