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\part{Horde Chat Module}
The idea is to integrate or develop some chat solution that allows Horde users to chat either in a separate application or from a widget that is displayed inside the regular applications.
\section{Bugs}
https://bugs.horde.org/ticket/4574
https://github.com/jsxc/jsxc/issues/61
https://bitbucket.org/mhxp/conversejs-horde
\section{People}
Jan
\section{Description}
As requested by several users and one customer, Horde lacks some chat/instant messaging solution. Suggested features:
\begin{itemize}
\item Internal only, with Horde users
\item Access to chat history
\item Group chats
\item Voice/video chats
\item Widget on-top of other applications
\end{itemize}
There are two categories of possible solutions:
\begin{itemize}
\item Standlone, proprietary clients that bring their own server.
\item Clients for existing chat protocols or backends (IRC, XMPP etc)
\end{itemize}
The latter is preferred, because we wouldn't have a vendor-lock-in and building on top of existing standardized solutions if better following Horde's paradigm of "integrate with what's there".
Two other categories are:
\begin{itemize}
\item Complete chat applications. This is the kind of chat you get on chat websites.
\item Integrated (widget-like) applications. Those can be integrated into existing applications and run partly on top of those. This is the kind of chat found on social networks.
\end{itemize}
Again, the latter is preferred because you wouldn't have to switch between the chat application and the other Horde application that you are currently using.
Other points to keep in mind: look and feel, ease of integration with existing web applications (other examples), conflicts with existing Horde JavaScript code, maintenance status, customization possibilities.
Without having investigated \textit{all} items, it boils down to an XMPP server with Converse.js, JSXC, or Jappix on top. Pending any unforeseen problems, and due to the nice UI and video/audio chat support(!), the winner is:
\textbf{JSXC!}
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\section{Resources}
\begin{itemize}
\item Feature request to create Horde ingegrator for JSXC: https://github.com/jsxc/jsxc/issues/61
\item Working POC for integrating Converse.js: https://bitbucket.org/mhxp/conversejs-horde
\end{itemize}
\subsection{XMPP Clients}
\begin{itemize}
\item Converse-JS: https://conversejs.org/
\item Candy: http://candy-chat.github.io/
\item Jappix: https://github.com/jappix/jappix
\item JSXC: https://www.jsxc.org/
\end{itemize}
\subsubsection{Not further analyzed}
\begin{itemize}
\item Kaiwa: http://getkaiwa.com/
\item SparkWeb: https://igniterealtime.org/projects/sparkweb/
\item Stanza.io: https://github.com/legastero/stanza.io
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Standalone clients}
\begin{itemize}
\item AJAX-Chat: PHP, MySQL https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat\#help
\item phpfreechat: PHP, Filesystem http://www.phpfreechat.net/
\end{itemize}
\subsection{Other clients}
\begin{itemize}
\item Rocket.Chat: Slack alternative https://rocket.chat/
\end{itemize}
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