Open source jabber based website "live chat" / "live help" system?

Question

I don't know if this belongs on SF, SU or SO... let's try SF first.

I'm looking for a "live help" system for website which uses Jabber/XMPP as a backend... so that website visitors could click a "Chat Now" button, and using AJAX, chat with operators who are already set up using Jabber accounts. Something very much like J-Livesupport but without a jabber server (I already have one) and preferably OSS/free.

Openfire's Fastpath Webchat is perfect except you must use Openfire's Spark client. No dice there.

Before I build my own, anyone know of anything out there?

Solution

Take a look at

• MUCkl
• Tigase Minichat
• Speeqe

All of them rely on an existing XMPP server with HTTP-poll or HTTP-bind.

Comments

[Patrick R]

@josh - hope you didn't build your own - openfire will definitely work with pidgin

[Patrick R]

@josh - I've removed my answer. I was so accustomed to using both pidgin and spark at the same time with Openfire that I had forgotten that Openfire wasn't sending my webbased helpdesk requests to pidgin. We get the web chats through spark and chat about the requests internally using pidgin (or adium). When I sat down to list out the steps this weekend the limitation became obvious. Sorry I got your hopes up.

[Josh]

@Patrick R, thanks, I was hopeful, but some of @joschi's suggestions look promising, so I hope one of those comes to maturity...

[Josh]

With openfire Fastpath?

[Josh]

Tigase and Speeqe sound promising!

[Josh]

Thanks... but I was looking for something which would integrate with an existing jabber server.