Ajax jabber/XMPP client recommendations (real experience only please) ! [closed]

Answer 1

SparkWeb is a decent web based XMPP client. I understand question is quite old, thought of sharing the information, may be someone might find this helpful

Answer 2

We just released Candy under MIT-License, an AJAX Jabber Client built with Strophe.js.

Why Candy?

• Focused on real-time multi-user chatting
• Easy to configure, easy to run, easy to use
• Highly customizable
• 100% well-documented JavaScript source code
• Built for Jabber (XMPP), using famous technologies
• Used and approved in a productive environment with up to 400 concurrent users
• Works with all major web browsers including IE7

Take a look :)

Answer 3

If you are ready to go ahead and build out custom UI for your chat application + doing some PHP/Javascript/XMPP stuff you may checkout Jaxl library. It have several examples on how to build a web based client for real-time chat.

Alternately you can simply try out ready to use chat client from Jaxl IM which is a generic/scalable client written using Jaxl library.

Answer 4

I use iJab. It's small, simple, fast, Facebook look and feel. http://code.google.com/p/ijab/

Answer 5

Another one that's doing rather well is Jappix which is open sourced here https://github.com/jappix. With an overview of the different sub-projects here http://jappix.org/features

Depending on your needs Jappix Mini may be all you need. (Facebook like bottom-right chat widget) Otherwise you could get a copy of the full client running.

Answer 6

I played with strophe.js a lot in the past. It is a really cool library for writting xmpp clients(pure javascript). In his book professional xmpp he explains how to write a multi-user-chat client in javascript. I guess you have to do some coding, but this library is really powerfull and you have complete control.