Alfresco Chat Tool

[siquser]

Is there any CHAT tool readily available that can work with Alfresco
I saw this URL " http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Cafe", but I dont see any information that tells me

1. What to install
2. Where to install it from
3. Pros / Cons / Limitations
4. No documentation found in Google / Alfresco Forum

Any help appreciated…

[mikeh]

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

Mike

[stevereiner]

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

[siquser]

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

[siquser]

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

[siquser]

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?

[stevereiner]

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

[stevereiner]

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

[fselendic]

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

[stevereiner]

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