topic Re: Alfresco Chat Tool in Alfresco Archive

Alfresco Chat Tool

siquser — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:03:57 GMT

Is there any CHAT tool readily available that can work with AlfrescoI saw this URL " http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Cafe", but I dont see any information that tells me1. What to install2. Where to install it from3. Pros / Cons / Limitations4. No documentation found in Google / Alfresco Forum

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

mikeh — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:50:59 GMT

See http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=15474&p=50745#p50745

Mike

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

stevereiner — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:59:44 GMT

Looks like Alfresco Cafe was proposed by Luis Sala 2 years ago per wiki page history and Mike's link

You could integrate CoCoMo with FlexSpaces

FlexSpaces
http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/flexspaces/

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=14382

CoCoMo
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cocomo/

http://manfred.dschini.org/2008/11/17/my-first-cocomo-compile/

Steve

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

siquser — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:18:04 GMT

Thanks a ton.
We will look into this ASAP & defenitely post our findings..

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

siquser — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:43:47 GMT

Cocomo looks like a great tool to start with & meets most of our Business Requirements. Only problems I could think of was

1. Its HOSTED Service from Adobe
2. Un-baked BETA product
3. Supports only FLEX for now
4. Pricing model is still un-defined

Thanks

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

siquser — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:03:56 GMT

After reading about Flexspaces (based on URL provided by Stevereiner in thread above) it seems this product/tool is more like an wrap-around Alfresco with some additional capabilities, also some of the features of "Alfresco Share" is merged into Flexspaces.

Is my findings correct? Please help me

What I actually looking for was a CHAT Tool & I think "Flexspaces" is NOT the right one. Correct?

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

stevereiner — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:50:24 GMT

FlexSpaces is a general RIA client for Alfresco written in Flex without chat features. It can considered an SDK of Flex based Alfresco application components. So since FlexSpaces and CoCoMo are both Flex based, the integration of the two should be straight forward (I plan on doing a sample integration of the two when I get some "time"). One correction on CoCoMo, while the CoCoMo SDK and some of its new real-time collaboration features are beta, Adobe ConnectNow / acrobat.com used by it are further along.

Some options:
1. Flex/flash (such as CoCoMo widgets) can be embedded in Share/Surf dashlets (I did this for the FlexSpaces Share site page components)
2. A new surf/ajax/yui UI dashlet for Share could be developed for a chat server that supports a REST api.
3. If the chat server already has an ajax UI, that could easily be put into a Share/Surf dashlet (if it uses the YUI ajax library it would integrate better than ones that use other ajax libraries)

Steve Reiner
http://www.integratedsemantics.org
http://www.integratedsemantics.com

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

stevereiner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:34:05 GMT

My last post focused on UI integration. The Alfresco Cafe proposal also suggested some backend Alfresco repository integration functionality

* Users may attach documents to the chat space as well as link to any managed document within the Alfresco repository or external URL.
* Chat history will be maintained according to any records management policy/fileplan that may be in place.
* Chat history and documents are searchable.

The CoCoMo looks interesting for the fancier kinds of features (shared white boards, webcam video). I wonder with CoCoMo if it can hooked into to store into a non-hosted Alfresco or LiveCycle CS repository for internal intranet use (and use the hosted part for extranet collaboration). If not, a new basic chat UI wouldn't be that hard to do in Flex (along with storing the chat history in the alfresco repository).

Steve

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

fselendic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:37:57 GMT

What about Openfire, from igniterealtime.org?
It is great chat server, released under GPL. Integrating it with Alfresco shouldn't be too hard.

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

stevereiner — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:29:07 GMT

The Openfire server
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp

even has a Flex client: SparkWeb
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/sparkweb/index.jsp

(note: SparkWeb is different from the Spark client, which is Swing based)

Steve

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

fselendic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:25:01 GMT

The Openfire server
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/index.jsp

even has a Flex client: SparkWeb
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/sparkweb/index.jsp

(note: SparkWeb is different from the Spark client, which is Swing based)

Steve

And it is actually a great product, very mature and stable, battle tested, strong community, standards based (Jabber). Written in Java and released as GPL, a perfect fit for Alfresco.

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

siquser — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:13:05 GMT

So far the tool "Openfire " looks good, we will evaluate this & post our findings

Thanks

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

srinivasmurty — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:51:31 GMT

Looks like the best approach here is to integrate the Alfresco portlet into Liferay. Liferay's IM client certainly seems to be able to do the job. However, I am wondering how much of the richness of the Alfresco document management and other capabilities would get lost inside Liferay. But that's for a different discussion thread.

Has anyone tried to implement the Meebo Me widget as a custom dashlet? Would that be one way to implement IM, despite Meebo being quite insecure?

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

gcattwood — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:27:05 GMT

So far the tool "Openfire " looks good, we will evaluate this & post our findings

Thanks

Any news on this project?

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

tjohnson — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 02:15:36 GMT

Yes very interested in follow up to the Openfire/Alfresco Alfresco integration work.

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

ttownsend — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:23:48 GMT

Very interested in any progress here.

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

himanshuk4u — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:04:02 GMT

Hi is project still going on or completed – spark web + alfresco integration

Re: Alfresco Chat Tool

wissal — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:13:26 GMT

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