Whitepapers

XMPP: The Protocol for Open, Extensible Instant Messaging

XMPP is open, flexible and extensible, making it the protocol of choice for real-time communications over the Internet. It enables the reliable transport of any structured XML data between individuals or applications. Read More >

Articles

Creating the XMPP Network Graph

January 24, 2024, by Guus der Kinderen

Guus describes how he used Openfire, XMPP and the XMPP Standards Foundation's specification process to create a nifty new online application... Read More >

Preparing Openfire for Audio/Video calls with Conversations

April 20, 2020, by Guus der Kinderen

For audio and video calls to work well with your instance of Openfire, it is recommended to make use of a STUN and TURN service... Read More >

Openfire Meetings as an alternative to Zoom

April 7, 2020, by Dele Olajide

Consider Openfire Meetings as an alternative to Zoom if the audio and/or video from your meetings needs... Read More >

All About Pubsub

April 17, 2006, by Gaston Dombiak and Matt Tucker

Publish-subscribe (pubsub) is a powerful protocol extension to XMPP. It's like RSS for instant messaging: users subscribe to an item and get notifications when it's updated. The general notification pattern that underlies the protocol... Read More >

Sparkplug Day

February 7 2006, by Matt Tucker

Once per quarter, the Jive Software engineering team spends a full day on a special project. A few weeks ago, we held Sparkplug Day to build out plugins for our Spark instant messaging client. The goals for Sparkplug Day... Read More >

IM File Transfer Made Easy

February 7, 2006, by Matt Tucker

Why do most instant messaging systems get file transfer so wrong? Typically, file transfers don't work reliably (especially when firewalls are involved) and the file transfer UI is non-intuitive with problems like... Read More >

Behind the Scenes: Openfire Optimization

December 19, 2005, by Matt Tucker

A major priority for Openfire is to provide the fastest and most scalable XMPP server implementation available. The Pampero project will be the major effort over the next several months to help us achieve that goal. However... Read More >

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