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

[Mariano Kamp <mariano.kamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.
I just read the jivesoftware will release their jabber server as open 
source. I believe it is written in Java and uses JDBC to access its 
underlying datastore.

http://www.jivesoftware.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=13272&tstart=0

Mariano