You may use the installation at JWChat.org for testing.

If you feel happy and pleased with JWChat and would like to support its further development, any donations will be kindly appreciated.

Download

Pre-generated Tarballs/ZIP-Archives

JWChat can be downloaded from the files section at sourceforge.net:

jwchat-1.0beta3.tar.gz (Tarball)
jwchat-1.0beta3.zip (ZIP Archive)
JWChat-1.0beta3.war (War Archive)
JabberHTTPBind v1.1 servlet bundled with JWChat 1.0beta3. Almost no configuration required here. Works right out of the box. Thumbs up!

Alternatively you can (and if you CAN you SHOULD!) use anonymous CVS . To get a current snapshot of the sources follow these steps:

Log into the CVS Server:

$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@jwchat.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/jwchat
$ cvs login

When asked for a password just hit return!

Go to your desired installation directory and check out the client code:

$ cvs -z3 checkout jwchat

Please make sure to read and understand README.CVS included with this distribution. Thanks!

Unpack the downloaded file to a directory that can be accessed by your web server.
Configure your web server:
1. Set the default-encoding to UTF-8 or make sure, that no other default encoding is being used
```
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
		
```
2. Enable mod_negotiation (chooses files according to languages a browser requests) and add a line like
```
Options +MultiViews
		
```
3. Enable address rewriting and proxying requests to make http polling/binding base address apear to be local to the webserver. E.g. for apache you would have to load mod_rewrite and mod_proxy (apache2 requires you too load mod_proxy_http additionally) and add some lines like
```
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule /http-poll/ http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ [P]
		
```
  Assuming that http://127.0.0.1:5280/http-poll/ is the http polling base address.
Edit 'config.js' to suit your needs (see comments for details). Take care when it comes to httpbase addresses which MUST reflect those URLs configured for address rewriting to extern http polling or http binding addresses from above.

Detailed installation instructions can be found in the README included with your JWChat distribution!