Tigase as an External Component

There are cases when you want to deploy one or more Tigase components separately from the main server, or perhaps you want to run some Tigase components connecting to a different XMPP server, or perhaps you work on a component and you do not want to restart the main server every time you make a change.

There is a way to run the Tigase server in external component mode. In fact you can run any of Tigase’s components as an external component and connect them to the main XMPP server either via XEP-0114 or XEP-0225 connection.

Let’s look at the examples…​