1. Jad Engine Conference Room
    1. Connecting to the Protocol
    2. Joining the Conference Room
    3. Reference Screen Shots

Jad Engine Conference Room

The Jad Engine Conference Room is a chat room hosted on Assembla's XMPP chat server. The chat room offers limited persistent chat history and in our experience is much more reliable than IRC. In order to connect to this room, you first need to be  registered with Assembla. After you have registered, you will need to point your browser to  http://www.assembla.com/spaces/watch/jadengine to automatically gain permissions to the server by becoming an official "Watcher" of the Jad Engine project. You will also need an  XMPP client. In the following walk through the XMPP client used is  Pidgin, and this is the client used by most of the current Jade developers.

Connecting to the Protocol

The first step towards joining the Jad Engine Conference Room is to create an XMPP account. A nice feature of XMPP is that it also allows instant messaging. The steps to create an XMPP account and connect to Assembla's server in Pidgin are as follows (this information is useful for other clients as well):

  1. Start Pidgin and select Accounts | Manage to view the Accounts dialog. If you are starting Pidgin for the first time, it will automatically ask you to create a new account and you can skip this step.
  2. Select the Add button and choose XMPP as the Protocol.
  3. The Username field should contain your Assembla login name.
  4. The Domain is chat.assembla.com, and the Resource can be anything (default is Home).
  5. The Password field should contain your Assembla password.
  6. On the Advanced tab, enable Require SSL/TLS and Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams.
  7. Save this account and make sure that it is enabled (checkbox in the Accounts dialog).

You are now connected to Assembla's XMPP chat server. The next step is to connect to the Conference Room.

Joining the Conference Room

The steps to join the Conference Room on Assembla's XMPP chat server in Pidgin are as follows (this information is useful for other clients as well):

  1. From the Pidgin Buddy List, select Buddies | Add Chat.
  2. Change the Account to your XMPP account and Room to JadEngine.
  3. Server should be conference.chat.assembla.com.
  4. Handle and Password should contain your Assembla login information.
  5. Add this chat and join it from the Buddy List.

Reference Screen Shots