[news.eclipse.technology.ecomm] Re: questions on the proposal

["Jeff McAffer" <jeff_mcaffer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mariano Kamp" <mariano.kampREMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> I've made good experiences with smack (http://pepemax.jabberstudio.org, 
> dead though) too and during the process of selecting a XMPP-API I got the 
> impression that it is the only Java XMPP-API that is actively maintained.
> It's very simple to use and the code is also very easy to understand.
>
> The only major(?) drawback that I've found so far is, that it is very hard 
> to test your code without having a server running and especially on 
> Windows it seems to be a little burden to get one going. Btw. On Debian 
> it's "apt-get install jabber" and you're ready to go.

I've had some success for basic stuff with jabberd 1.4 on windows. 
(http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/).  Jabberd 2 does not seem to be 
windows friendly yet.  jabber.org runs a server that is pretty reasonable 
for testing.

Jeff