Is it ejabber, Ejabber, Ejabberd, eJabber, eJabberd, or ejabberd?

Correct Spelling

It happens that people spell the name of this Jabber/XMPP server wrongly. They talk about ejabber, Ejabber, Ejabberd, eJabber, or eJabberd. However, the only right spelling is ejabberd. Thus:

  • no capitalization,
  • and a "d" at the end.

The name ejabberd stands for Erlang JABBER Daemon:

  • Erlang, the programming language that ejabberd is written in.
  • Jabber, the "streaming XML protocols and technologies" that ejabberd is using, standardized as XMPP.
  • A daemon, which is just a conception.

Pronunciation

How do you pronounce "ejabberd"? Alexey, the author of ejabberd says this about that question:

I pronounce it with a Russian accent, other variants are ok for me

Known Wrong Spelling Examples

The porpuse of the following list is to help people find this page with search engines:

  • ejabber, Ejabber, eJabber
  • ejabbered
  • ejabber
  • ejaberd
  • e-jabberd
  • ejbd
  • e-jabbered

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Another Russian

Another Russian slang-pronunciation is "yozhick" (it means "hedgehog") :)

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