Introduction

This is a Web application which embeds an XMPP server and allows users to chat using a web browser. It's basically a test I did to explore the integration of XMPP in a web application.

It uses Vysper and Strophe.js

How to use it

• Compile Web XMPP using mvn install

• Deploy the generated web application in a Jetty web server (version 7.x). You can find the WAR in the target directory, once the compilation is finished.

• Start the Jetty application server and go to the context root of the web application. If you deployed it using the web-xmpp context go to http://127.0.0.1/web-xmpp/

• Each tab that you will open to that page represent a user connecting to a multi-user chat.

• The user name for each page is automatically generated. If you want to connect using a specific user name, you can do it by specifying the username parameter in the query string (e.g., connecting to http://127.0.0.1/web-xmpp/?username=cool_user_name

• All the messages are sent by default to the group chat, thus, received by everyone connected at a given moment. If you want to send a private message to a user you can use the <- operator: if you write in the text area a message with the form username@web-xmpp <- msg this will send a private message to username@web-xmpp.

• The server also opens a standard TCP port listening for connection. You can use you favourite XMPP client to connect to the server and participate to the group chat. The multi-user chat room is called web-xmpp.

Have fun.