ejabberd is a free (GPL) distributed fault-tolerant Jabber/XMPP server and is mainly written in Erlang programming language. It runs under Windows NT and several Unix-like operating systems such as Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
Alexey Shchepin started the project in 2002 and continues to maintain it. He says that the name ejabberd stands for Erlang JABBER Daemon . ejabberd is written in small letters only which is common use in the unix-world. The goal of ejabberd is to create a stable and full-featured Jabber server.
=Features=
Besides s (saving vCards in LDAP is possible with another module), a module for [http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0060.html Publish-Subscribe], and a module to [http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0039.html gather statistics via Jabber].
ejabberd has no authentication and STARTTLS support for connections between servers.
=Project History=
16 November 2002 - [http://njs.netlab.cz/vcard.phpjid=jabber.ru Alexey Shchepin writes the first lines of code.]
11 February 2003 - [http://jabberstudio.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ejabberd/ChangeLog ejabberd 0.1-alpha released.]
16 November 2003 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2003-November/000052.html ejabberd 0.5 released.]
13 July 2004 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2004-July/000129.html ejabberd 0.7 released.]
10 October 2004 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2004-October/000337.html ejabberd 0.7.5 released.]
19 April 2005 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2005-April/000987.html ejabberd 0.9 released.]
24 May 2005 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2005-May/001101.html ejabberd 0.9.1 released.]
2 August 2005 - [http://lists.jabber.ru/pipermail/ejabberd/2005-August/001278.html ejabberd 0.9.8 released.]
=See also=
Erlang programming language
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
Jabber
=External links=
[http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/ ejabberd homepage]
[http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/ ejabberd on Process-one]
[http://www.jabber.org/software/ejabberd.shtml Detailed page about ejabberd on jabber.org]
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/repos/ Erlang REPOS]
[http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/j-eai/ J-EAI]