Openfire Meetings
An Openfire plugin that provides high quality, scalable video conferences using Jitsi Meet and Jitsi Videobridge.
The Ignite Realtime community is pleased to present "Openfire Meetings", a plugin for Openfire. Openfire Meetings is a complete standalone plugin powered by Jitsi Videobridge, Jitsi Meet, Candy, Fastpath, TogetherJS and other components. It does not depend on any other plugins, although its functionality can be improved when combined with other plugins. Please refer to the configuration section below for details.
Openfire Meetings provides a web-based real-time communications application that enables the following features:
- Web-based clients based on Jitsi Meet as well as Candy;
- Openfire user authentication directly from web browser;
- Audio and Video conferencing;
- Telephone (SIP) conferencing;
- Online Meeting/Conference hosting and planning;
With the optional Openfire Meetings Chrome Extension, these additional features are available:
- Screen sharing;
- Co-browsing;
- Application sharing (PDF presentation, URL sharing like youtube videos, google maps, drawing and text editor)
When a Remote Desktop Control Native Application is combined with the Openfire Meetings Chrome Extension, the following features are enabled:
- Remote desktop control;
Openfire Fastpath is a solution built on top of Openfire that adds support for managed queued chat requests. Openfire Meetings includes support for Fastpath. This allows all interaction between a website user an agent to occur in Openfire Meetings web clients, which will make available all Openfire Meetings functionality to both parties. Using Openfire Meetings, Fastpath sessions are thus enhanced with audio, video, desktop sharing (application and screen), remote control and all other features of Openfire Meetings!
The Openfire Meetings plugin continues the development of the ofmeet web application which was part of the now deprecated Jitsi-videobridge plugin.
The place to discuss the Openfire Meetings plugin is in the community plugins section of the Ignite Realtime community.
PLEASE NOTE - You will need at least Openfire 4.0.1 to use this plugin.
Openfire Meetings is installed as any regular Openfire plugin: Log into the Openfire Admin Console, and navigate to the "plugins" tab. There, select the "Available Plugins" menu item, find the "Openfire Meetings" plugin in the list of available plugins, and press the install button.
Alternatively, download the ofmeet.jar file and place the file in the Openfire plugins directory. Within
approximately one minute, the plugin will be deployed automatically.
Once deployed, various screens are added to the Openfire Admin Console where the configuration of Openfire Meetings can be adjusted when needed.
To enable url sharing, screen sharing, remote desktop control, co-browsing and application sharing, your users will have to install the Openfire Meetings Chrome Extension in their browser.
When combined with the Openfire Meetings Chrome Extension, the Remote Desktop Control Native Application will enable remote desktop control functionality.
To install Remote Desktop Control Native Application, first download and extract the native application from
https://github.com/igniterealtime/community-plugins into any suitable folder. Run install_host.bat (Windows) or
install_host.sh (Linux / OS X) to install and register the native application with the Chrome extension.
Run uninstall_host.bat or uninstall_host.sh to unregister the native application when you are done with it.
To grant another user remote control of your desktop, share your desktop, select a participant and click on the remote control button. Alternatively, any viewer of your screen share can request for remote control access by clicking on the remote control button while viewing your screen.
When combined with the Openfire Bookmarks plugin, Openfire Meetings will allow users to provision PDF presentation URLs and meeting/conference bookmarks. Users can select presentations and conferences from a pull down list.
The Openfire Bookmarks plugin is a stand-alone plugin for Openfire, that can be downloaded from the Openfire Admin Console, or, alternatively, from the Openfire Plugins web page.
The Openfire Meetings Spark plugin provides a button from a Multi User Chat (MUC) room or chat window within the Spark client, to open a Chrome window to a Jitsi Meet-based web client. From a MUC room, the web client room is the same room name. From a chat, a unique, temporary room will be created.
The Openfire Meetings Spark plugin is obtained from the Openfire Meetings plugin itself. After installation of Openfire
Meetings, the Spark plugin can be downloaded from https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet/spark/ofmeet-plugin.jar
Openfire Meetings includes a Jitsi Meet-based web client. To make use of this client, point your browser to any of these addresses:
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https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet- To select or create a room; -
https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet/?r=xxxxx- To join a specific room; -
https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet/?r=xxxxx&novideo=true- To join a specific room, audio only (no video);
To use HTTP instead of HTTPS, replace port 7443 by 7070. Please note that for webRTC audio and video, HTTPS is mandatory.
Openfire Meetings includes a Candy-based web client. To make use of this client, point your browser to this address:
https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet/candy.html
To use HTTP instead of HTTPS, replace port 7443 by 7070. Please note that for webRTC audio and video, HTTPS is mandatory.
Candy can also be accessed as a toolbar panel from the Openfire Meetings Chrome Extension, by clicking on the Openfire icon on the chrome web browser toolbar. You must enable Chrome panels otherwise a popup window will be opened instead. To enable chrome panels feature in Chrome, type in "chrome://flags/#enable-panels" in the url bar - click on "enable" under "enable panels" - Make sure to click on "relaunch now " at the bottom of the page, to take effect.
Openfire Meetings enables web applications that can be used in an N:N model (each user can simultaneously interact with all the other users). Some applications are provided to get started and more can be developed using the collaboration API provided.
Openfire Meetings automatically saves the contents of each application for each meeting on the server as XMPP private data against each user that creates the content. Next time you have the meeting, the application content opens at where you left it from the last meeting.
Each application is accessible directly from the Jitsi-Meet web client toolbar or from the pull down list the Applications menu on the toolbar.
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Presentations: Openfire Meetings provides a PDF viewer that enables a presentation to be driven by a presenter and viewed by all participants in the meeting. To create a presentation, export your powerpoint presentation as a PDF document and save on a web server. You can use your Openfire server by saving in the resources/spank folder. Use the bookmarks plugin to create a URL bookmark and ensure that the url ends with ".pdf"
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Cooperative Editing: This is a modified version of "woot", a rich-text collaborative editor by kroky. There are tons of stuff on this subject matter. Just look up "google wave". Etherpad is the most popular and mature implementation so far. This presentation very informative especially explaining operational transformation and why woot (without operational transformation) is simpler.
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Cooperative Drawing: This is the TogetherJS drawing sample application.
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Co-Browsing: This is a web site that enables joint navigation by all participants in the meeting. It is using the TogetherJS engine to track and show the multiple cursors and administer remote mouse clicks on each page. To create a co-browse, use the bookmarks plugin to create a URL bookmark and ensure that the url ends with ".html".
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URL Sharing: This is a generic viewer for various content and specific popluar applications. Currently, only you-tube videos, google maps and document types pdf|pages|ai|psd|tiff|dxf|svg|eps|ps|ttf|xps|zip|rar|doc|xls|ppt files can be viewed. The viewer supports also the clipboard. If you copy a URL from another application, it will be shown in the dialog textbox when URL sharing is slected from the JitsiMeet toolbar.
The Meeting/Conference planner feature enables you to schedule meetings/conferences in advance using a calendar.
When you add a meeting to the calendar, a request to join the meeting is automatically generated and sent to each
participant using Openfire's email service 15 mins before the meeting starts. Included in the email is a link to join
the meeting from a Chrome web browser.
In order to use this feature, you will need:
- Registered Openfire users with valid email address;
- A persistent MUC room to host each planned meeting;
- The Openfire bookmarks plugin installed to create a room bookmark that links the room to users or user groups (Bookmarks with all users selected are ignored);
- The Openfire Email Service configured to deliver emails; The calendar is implemented using the excellent open source FullCalendar jQuery plugin by Adam Shaw.
The Candy-based web client that ships with Openfire Meetings supports Fastpath. When a Fastpath Agent logs in and uses the client, Fastpath functionality will be exposed, similar to the functionality provided by the Spark client that agents would use in a scenario where Openfire Meetings is not used.
Openfire Meetings ships with a Fastpath JavaScript library that is intended to be integrated within the website that is offering Fastpath services to end-users. Similar to the Fastpath webchat solution, this library allows users to enter a managed queue.
After installation of Openfire Meetings, the Fastpath JavaScript library can be accessed at https://your-server.com:7443/ofmeet/fastpath/.
Openfire Meetings works with the monitoring plugin to enable easy playback of meeting recordings from the server using the monitoring archive search admin web web page or from a client using Jitsi Meet and Candy. For this feature to work, accept the default location for the recordings or ensure your recording folder is under the "./resources/spank" folder.
Openfire Meetings will inject two groupchat messages into every meeting with clickable weblinks to the audio and video recording files for each participant in a conference. These are then archived and retrieved normally by the monitoring plugin.