Group Chatting with SparkWeb and OpenFire

When we deployed SparkWeb as our web IM, group chat is possible with the combination of SparkWeb and OpenFire.

Due to the limited features in SparkWeb, users login through SparkWeb are not allowed to create chat room. Thus, we have to create the chat room / conference in OpenFire admin console or Spark IM Client.

Prerequisite:

1. download and install OpenFire

2. install SparkWeb as web IM into our web application. 

Steps:

Option 1: Create chat room with Spark IM Client

Option 2:

1. login to OpenFire admin console as administrator.

2. Create a group chat service

    a. Group Chat > Group Chat Settings > Create New Service

    b. Fill in Group chat service name and description. eg, gc.

    c. Save

3. Create a room under the group chat. 

    a. Group Chat > Room Administration > Create New Room

    b. Fill in Room details

    c. Fill in password if participants are required to login to the chat room.

4. users connect to the chat room

    a. Conferences > + 

    b. Fill in the room and group chat service.

    c. New Room added into conferences list. d-click to start chatting with other participants. 

p/s: advantage of creating chat room in Admin Console is password can be added to the chat room  (step 3b). Thus, all participants required to enter password to login to the chat room. 

Done!!