Archive for March, 2007

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Asterisk-IM: It's Alive!

There have been a lot of questions about Asterisk-IM since the new voice features were added to Spark and Openfire. I’m happy to report that there are now four interested developers who are going to be stabilizing Asterisk-IM, adding new features and making sure those features work well with the other voice-related functionality in Spark […]

Tags: General, Asterisk-IM 17 Comments

Google Summer of Code 2007

We’re excited to be participating again this year as one of the mentor organizations under the XSF for Google’s Summer of Code 2007. We have several project ideas and mentors ready to offer advice on getting the projects done. The ideas we’ve created:

Asterisk-IM: Asterisk and Openfire Integration
Link-Local Messaging (XEP-0174) support
File transfers for gateways
Jingle Voicemail
Group Chat […]

Tags: General, PlanetJabber Comments
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Spark Goodies

We are getting closer and closer to the final release of Spark 2.5, and I thought I would give a little insight on some of the stuff that’s new, stuff that’s coming, and stuff that’s hidden. It doesn’t do anyone any good when we have features within the client that no one knows about. […]

Tags: Spark Client, General 11 Comments

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Pouring a pint of Guinness is a sacred art — get it wrong and the creamy goodness just won’t be the same. So in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, our resident design expert Ryan created a guide (below) to creating the perfect Guiness pint.
One thing we never realized is that actually getting a Guinness keg […]

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Openfire Name Launched

Today we re-launched Wildfire using the Openfire name. Along with the name change, we also have a great new logo. I wanted to provide some details about how the name change is being implemented to decrease confusion.
First, you’ll notice that all website content has been updated to Openfire. There may be a few […]

Tags: General, PlanetJabber, Openfire Server Comments
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Ring Ring!

With today’s releases of Spark 2.5.0 Beta 4 and Smack 3.0.0 Beta 3, support for Jingle VoIP has officially landed. We’re pretty excited about the progress so far (and perhaps Thiago can start to get more sleep after numerous all-nighters). Some highlights:

We’ve tested NAT traversal in a wide variety of environments, in one case punching […]

Tags: General, PlanetJabber 15 Comments
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XIFF 3 Beta in Subversion, Official Release Coming Soon

For all you Flex developers and Flash fans looking to create XMPP-enabled applications with Actionscript 3, an updated (and clean) version of the XIFF 3 Beta code can now be found in the XIFF Subversion repository. Once we finish testing, working on the documentation, and cleaning up a few odds and ends, we plan […]

Tags: XIFF API 13 Comments