[jdev] ejabberd vs. Wildfire

[Sander Devrieze]

Op zondag 22 januari 2006 12:05, schreef Yves Goergen:
> Thank you for the feedback so far. Seems the right people are here. :)
>
> First the environment. We're a small webhosting company that is actually
> managed by my dad and me only, where I do the tech stuff. I'm running
> that Jabber server to the public and primarily set it up for my personal
> use. I don't expect more than a handful of users to show up there in the
> near future (currently there's two users). So performance/scalability
> isn't an important thing to me. I could even say I don't need a data
> import facility right now, but that shouldn't be too often in the
> future... In any case I'm going to use an open database (MySQL would be
> good). I never managed to export that Erlang database thing (forgot its
> name) and I somewhat dislike closed data storage systems.

There is a migration tool in recent ejabberd versions.
Native PostgreSQL support emerged in 1.0.0.
Native MySQL support is in Subversion (and will be in 1.0.1 I guess).
Documentation for SQL databases is in progress AFAIR.

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> I've never had much luck with that Erlang thing. I somehow did manage to
> get an old version (8.x or so) compiled or found an external Debian
> package but that won't do for ejabberd 1.0 so I'll need to go with the
> binaries from process-one. I don't even rudimentary understand Erlang so
> not having the source code is okay for me, but I don't think I can use
> bleeding-edge CVS or patched versions this way. I don't know if that may
> become a problem. Wildfire is a Java application, which makes it equally
> portable

Similar for Erlang: you also have some kind of "Java Virtual Machine" in 
Erlang. You only do not need Linux emulation for Erlang under FreeBSD as you 
need for Java. You also can pay people to port Erlang to your your coffee 
machine if you need it as it is open-source.

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