About Openfire and Xmpp

Question

i just asked later about wanting to do a backend server for an instant message application, reading a lot there is less and less tutorials or books on how to achieve this, now with the growing tendency from the BaaS services. As i am using the XMPP Protocol to communicate my application, i found in the way Openfire.

I'm not a server guy, i know a little about this, so my questions are:

What others technologies do i need to accomplish my goal to create an instant message app? Does Openfire create a consistent database for registered users? Can i send files like images, videos, sharing contact info, etc? Can i use apple push notifications? Could i consider the same server for use it with an Android version of my app? Should i stick to Parse.com? If i use Parse.com, can i still use XMPP or is not necessary?

Hope you can help me, because i'm having a bad time with the server side!

Answer 1

Yes you can do all these things. But you need to create plugins for some of the functionalists like push notification