History: Openfire

Openfire Meetings is a real-time communication server implementing the XMPP (Jabber) and WebRTC protocols with a SIP gateway. It offers a very large number of features and a great admin panel and source code is available under the Apache 2.0 license. It includes Jitsi Meet. The Openfire Fastpath Plugin adds support for managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use. For example, a web based "Live Support" interface can point a potential customer at a workgroup representing the Sales team. Members of that workgroup will receive notification that a someone is waiting and when someone from that workgroup accepts, the customer and the team member will be connected to communicate with each other.

Key features

• Full standard XMPP feature set
  • Presence
  • Store and send offline messages
  • Server to server messages
  • XEP-0136: Message Archiving
  • Multi-device
  • XEP-280 message carbons
  • File transfer
• WebRTC videoconference
  • Web chat interface
  • Screen sharing
  • Active speaker identification
• General
  • Encryption (done by clients)
  • Runs on standard GNU/Linux server (and even Windows)
  • OpenLDAP user integration available
  • Some users can be in a browser and others with an XMPP client
  • Web-based admin panel
• Meeting planner (email notifications of upcoming meetings)
• Fastpath (managed queued chat requests, such as a support team might use)
• PDF Presentations via PDF.js
• Collaborative drawing (whiteboard) (Alpha)
• Collaborative text editing (Alpha)
• Co-Browsing (Alpha)
• SIP integration: Phone-in & call out phone numbers to the conference (Alpha)
• Recording a conference (Beta)
• Remote Control of keyboard and mouse (Alpha)
• Copy-Paste (Alpha)

Features of the Openfire app for ClearOS

• Included plugins: Fastpath, Openfire meetings
• System database provisioning
• LDAP integration
• focus user (openfire-focus) for Openfire meetings
• SSL certificate integration, like Let's Encrypt
• Firewall helper

Jitsi Meet vs Openfire Meetings

"Although jitmeet Jitsi Meet and ofmeet (Openfire Meetings) look similar, they are different underneath and are heading in different directions. Jitsi Meet is for generic XMPP servers and aimed at public internet facing conferencing using services like prezi.org and etherpad.org while Openfire Meetings is for private in-house conferencing where all collaboration applications are integrated into Openfire. For example, Ofmeet uses a PDF viewer which supports in-house corporate powerpoint presentations, while Jitmeet uses prezi.org."
Source: https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2014/05/01/jitsi-videobridge-ver-130

Learn more

• Why Openfire was picked for WikiSuite
• How to install Openfire Meetings on ClearOS
• Openfire Meetings Documentation
• https://github.com/igniterealtime/community-plugins/blob/master/ofmeet/readme.md
• igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire
• Openfire Meetings Plugin
• Openfire Meetings Plugin source code
• Openfire, wikipedia.org.
• Openfire, openhub.net.
• Openfire Meeting and Jitsi Meet development
• https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2015/02/14/realtime-collaboration-with-openfire-meetings
• https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2015/05/04/openfire-meetings-planner
• https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2014/11/30/openfire-meetings
• https://community.igniterealtime.org/blogs/ignite/2015/12/12/qa-for-openfire-meetings
• OpenFire Single Server Load Testing Easily 80,000 Concurrent Connections
• Source code
• https://github.com/WikiSuite/app-openfire
• https://github.com/WikiSuite/app-openfire-plugin
• https://github.com/WikiSuite/openfire