Is there anyway for a client to use JES IM without downloading software. If I kick off IM using the JAVA web start method, it tries to download over 5M of software. What does the Java Plug-In method do? The documentation seems to imply that it only works on Windows and it also downloads software. I have clients that do not allow software downloads from the Internet.
Its only a onetime download of IM Client jars, anyways if you don't want to download any software & want to access IM, you can use any browser-based XMPP client . A good one ir http://jwchat.sourceforge.net/. You can access IM features using this web-client through browser. But this is an open-source client & doesn't support all the features our IM server supports.
Note: This client will only work with 2006Q1 release of Sun Java System Instant Messaging Server. You need to use httpbind feature of this release to access XMPP based IM services through browser. For more on httpbind check this out : http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2503/6n4po7r1q?a=view
HTH
