No, there really isn't any need to installl your own jabber server.
All you need do is install an accessible jabber client for a few
minutes that can perform service discovery. You would then find a
server at www.jabber.org and then create an account using the client.
Most of these clients will create an account for you, all you have to
do is pick a server. After you're done registering your jabber
account, use the clients service discovery feature to register on the
gateway of your choice. Then uninstall the client, log in to your
newly created account with Ichat and your done. I used Pandion to do
this, and if you do it for service discovery in this software they
call it choosing a transport. It isn't hard to do and the only reason
you have to do it this way is currently Ichat doesn't have an option
to create a Jabber account or pick a transport.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:42 PM, yvonne thomson wrote:
Hi, guys.
First, let me say, I've only had a short time to play with this, and
I just don't have time to really get this working right now. It does
look possible, though, if someone's up to a bit of fiddling. I found
the following article on macosxhints this morning
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071030041941679
Basically, this is suggesting you install your *own* jabber server,
install the IM Gateway plugin, and connect to that.
It looks like this will let you do the registration and such in the
*web* interface, which looks pretty accessible from what I've seen,
thus avoiding this Ichat problem we've got.
As I've said, it's a bit technical, or at least it is until
someone's done this and can give people the exact steps, and as I've
said, I don't have time right now so I've thrown this open in case
someone else does.
What I've discovered so far to save some time.
On the download page for this software, the links are a bit stuffed.
In the choose platform bit, pick the third index link down, and the
link to download the dmg file appears on the same page *under* those
three index.jsp links.
Once you've run the install package, go to
http://127.0.0.1:9090
to set up the server. Most of it looks straight forward, just make
sure you select internal database like it says in the article.
Install the IM gateways plugin from the admin console.
I'm afraid that's as far as I've gotten at the moment, but the admin
console seems pretty accessible, or at least I haven't had any
problems so far, anyway.
As I've said, this is going to take some work at first, but I think
if it works, we should be able to come up with a step-by-step that
should make it workable for most people who want to try it. I'd've
kept a lid on it until I'd worked it all out myself, but I know a
lot of you've been trying to do some of this, so I decided against it.
Good luck.
