Tigase Website

Initially the Tigase project was about the XMPP/Jabber server development. After a while the project received a support from other developers more interested in client side development. So now we host quite a few projects related to the IM and XMPP in particular.

The main focus is put to the server development and to the web clients development. By web client I mean not just the Minichat application used by many visitors of our website but also our AJAX libraries for XMPP/Bosh communication which are used in a few bespoke projects and also our child project - Tigase Messenger.

We have been working on the Tigase Messenger for some time already and it is still not yet finished product but we think it can be demonstrated to the public. Please go to the messenger.tigase.org page, login, play with it and let us know what you think.

We have just launched the Tigase XMPP testing zone. This is the Tigase server clustered installation with 2 nodes. The installation is integrated with the Drupal CMS.

At the moment it offers c2s, s2s and Bosh protocols. We are going to enable more services for testing soon: MUC, PubSub, MSN transport and possibly more.

Please feel free to create an account on the Drupal website and use it for testing of your software.

Note. The installation is available through rather average broadband connection and it is not suitable for any kind of load or high traffic tests.

As usually all comments and suggestions are very welcomed. If you have ideas to improve the installation and make it easier for your tests please let me know.

Registering new accounts on the website has been disabled. Also all existing public accounts will be removed when the service is moved onto the new server.

If you have an account on the Tigase.org website which you use as your XMPP/Jabber account please move to any public service available as in about week all those accounts will be removed.

Tigase.org will only keep accounts for people involved in Tigase projects. Creating a new account will be possible by the administrator only.

If you use an account on the Tigase website for interoperability testing or any other tests please contact me to preserve your account.

A new project has been added to Tigase suite - the PubSub component.

Development is carried out by bmalkow author of the Tigase MUC component and our web clients: Minichat and Tigase Messenger.

As all our software the PubSub is available under GPLv3 license. The project tracker is available at http://projects.tigase.org/pubsub address and also source codes are stored in SVN repository which is accessible at https://svn.tigase.org/reps/tigase-pubsub/ address.

Please have a look at the roadmap on the project tracker website to see what is planed for the nearest future.

Any comments and suggestions are very welcomed. You submit posts on the forum or new feature request on the project tracker.

I like to add multiple contacts, about 15 of them in one go than adding one by one through UI. I am intersted in adding them programmatically. any inputs?

Recent Minichat addition on the Tigase website raised lots of questions about access to the source code.

Following those requests we have listed all the projects Tigase team works on and all the source codes are now publicly available. You can go to the projects page and browse all the published projects.

Please note, most of the project trackers are in initial state and the web content might be missing. You can, however access the project source codes, bug tracking system and see the roadmap. We are working hard on adding missing elements.

Your comments as always are very welcomed.

We have made Minichat available just to demonstrate new stuff we are working on, to do some tests and collect your opinions. The feedback we have got exceeded our expectations. The most common question was: Can I/how can I install it on my website?

Installing the Minichat on your website is very simple so I am putting here instructions for all of you who want to include the Minichat client on your website and allow visitors to chat with you.

Just to remind you - this code is still under development and will be updated and changed very often. It may even stop working temporarily or permanently. We can even intentionally block certain users or IP addresses if we discover any abuse. If you are ready for this and still want to have it continue reading...

We have just installed the Minichat - simple web client on the Tigase website. It allows anybody who visits the website to chat with "admin" - me ;-). No user name, no password is required. Just click to connect to the XMPP/Jabber server and you can start conversation.

This is the AJAX application created using GWT (Google Web Toolkit). It connects to the XMPP server via Bosh and signs in using SASL Anonymous.

This is our first version of the client and we are going to move things further to add fully functional AJAX client to Tigase project. The AJAX client and the XMPP library written in GWT is also available under GPLv3 license and will be released publicly very soon.

Please have a look, experiment and let us know what you think...

If you can see this message it means that DNS change has been populated and you access Tigase service on the new server.

The old machine was quite underpowered and couldn't cope with the traffic and all services running on tigase.org. The new server with Core2Quad CPU, 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD in RAID1 mirror should be enough for our needs.

If you see something not working correctly or some unexpected behavior please let me know.

The old machine is still alive with all services working on it so some people may still connect to the old server while some other for who DNS changes was updated earlier may connect to the new server. I am going to shutdown the old machine within a few days.

Tigase website and the service disappeared for over 2 weeks.

I am sorry for all the inconvenience and problems it could caused and for a disruption of the XMPP/Jabber service. We have now a business class Internet connection with 24/7 support and I believe it won't happen again.

Please let me know if you notice something wrong with the website or the service. Internet provider has changed and our network configuration has changed too, so there might be still some outstanding issues to solve.

We had a problem with our Internet connection provider who accidentally disconnected our wire during the maintenance.
It took them over 2 weeks to fix the problem and in the meantime after calling the technical service every day hearing the same: "Might be fixed tomorrow or in a few days but I can not guarantee it won't take a month." I decided to change the Internet provider.

You can read the full story on my blog website.

I am thinking again of outsourcing the server hosting....

I am happy to announce successful completion of Tigase website upgrade.

It was a serious update from Drupal ver. 4.7 to ver. 5.2 and there were many changes in configuration and modules. So please have a look and let me know if something is still wrong.

You may not notice any visual changes and this is intentional. I have put a lot of effort to make it initially identical with the old site and I am going to add new stuff gradually to take the advantage of all new features available in current version.

Tigase custom modules (Minis from XMPP and Tigase Monitor) have been updated to the most recent versions as well. The most interesting element of that update is a link to detailed Tigase server statistics.

More will be available soon...

Both Jabber/XMPP Web clients (Jeti and JWChat) are installed and are available on Tigase Website.

They both offer auto-login function for site guests that is visitors who don't have an account on Tigase Website. Simply click on a link and you will be automatically logged in as a guest. Guest account has an initial roster with myself in buddy list so you can easily chat with me if I am online or leave me a message if I am away.

Tigase Website share accounts with Jabber/XMPP service on tigase.org server. If you have an account on the Website and you are logged in then clicking on Web client link will open application with your user name and all you need to do is enter your password.

Jeti uses a regular c2s protocol and you can also use it to login onto your account on any server.

JWChat uses a bosh protocol and you can only login to tigase.org server with this client. Bosh protocol has been greatly improved recently and it will be included in new version of Tigase server.

There is also a persistent multiuser chat room publicly available on the server: talks@muc.tigase.org. Please connect if you want to talk about Tigase project in general.

First short story...

I have been using Gentoo Linux for years already. I have it installed on my server and on all my desktops and laptops.

When people asked me why I use Gentoo I usually was saying because it is flexible, I have a good control over what is installed and how it is configured, I can install many versions of development tools which I use on daily basis (gcc, Java, Python, ...) and the last reason I used to mention was performance...

My wife used Gentoo as well because she had no choice. Some day I decided to install for her different distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora to make live easier for her so she could easily install new programs, update system and so on...

When the new system was ready to use she didn't want to use it at all! The main issue she found was it is too slow comparing to Gentoo, she wanted her "old system" back...

So even though we made similar choice our motivations were different.

Ok, ok, I know there is no single perfect Jabber client. I have already learned my lesson. Everybody has his own perfect Jabber client and even if people select the same application they may do it for different reasons.

I have implemented simple Monitor - Drupal module for the Website. It shows basic statistics about Jabber service and server development.

Currently all data are loaded from database so the statistics might not be accurate in some cases.

More accurate and complete statistics based on data retrieved directly from Jabber service will be added shortly.

Enjoy!

Any comments are very welcomed.