Giving up on tigase

Wanted to run the same experiments on tigase which I did against ejabberd and openfire : and gave up. Too many installation (configuration rather) issues. It keeps complaining about db setup issues, wont allow for overriding ports, etc.

If I was more interested, I might try to hunt down the issues : but somehow, not that driven unfortunately.

This is actually an interesting takeaway actually ... administration of the server should be as easy as possible. I am actually very pleased with the way openfire folks have handled this aspect !

Particularly when you want to target developers, it really helps if you can bring up server and manage it without needing to muck around unnecessarily with internals of the deployment, config db, etc. For powerusers, this is required ofcourse (so no binary blobs for config please !) but for a casual user, a simple and elegant UI goes a long way.