Open Source Ajaxed IM Client: iJab

15 Jan

iJab is an open source, web-based & Ajaxed instant messenger application that uses the XMPP/Jabber protocol.

It is written in JavaScript, uses Google Gears for clientside storage & supports MSN, AIM or any other XMPP-based services (you can easily create a closed chat group for your community).

iJab has lots of features like:

theme support
new message pop-up notifications
multi-user chat
search users
avatar, smiley support
& much more..

The application has 3 modes: stand-alone application, Facebook-like web chat bar in page & live support

Requirements: No Requirements
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Website: http://opensource.ijab.im/
Demo: http://samespace.anzsoft.com/webim/iJab/iJab.html
Download: http://code.google.com/p/ijab/downloads/list

Tags: Gears Jabber Javascript MSN XMPP
Filed under: Chat, Goodies, GPL License
10 Comments

10 Responses for "Open Source Ajaxed IM Client: iJab"

Xijee January 15th, 2010 at 8:56 am
This looks pretty neat. Think I might mess around with this today

Jordan Walker January 15th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Not sure about this one.

mondo January 16th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Umm… i find it just a little troubling that the features list is a copy/paste job from CometChat… and they even left in “CometChat will display users’ status messages during chat”.

Quick look at CometChat site confirms its a copy/paste job. They don’t seem to be the same company. I’d say someone might want to confirm if this is legit usage, and its just a case of they were too lazy to write their own feature list, before using for any commercial usage.

http://www.ijab.im/features/
http://www.cometchat.com/overview

Vahag January 16th, 2010 at 11:56 am
how can i login to iJab, is there any demo hosts to login?

Handy January 16th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
how can i get that????

Umut M. January 17th, 2010 at 4:38 am
@mondo,
I’ll be checking that now.

@Vahag,
You can login to demo with any random user-pass.

Zhan January 18th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
@mondo

I’m just too lazy to write the text and now I’ve changed the text.

iJab is based on XMPP protocol and is very, very different with CometChat.

iJab is licensed under GPLv2. I hope people who love XMPP would like iJab and iJab would help XMPP.

Josh D. May 9th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
Website seems to be down now but you can still download it from http://code.google.com/p/ijab/

HAsan Dönmez August 28th, 2011 at 7:22 am
I wonder where the source files of this conversation, I would like to use as a server for your own on our servers.