Impressed by the archiving facility of the Monitoring Service plugin? If you are in a sector that takes compliance with the IM regulations seriously, there's no better way to do it than through the archiving interface of the Monitoring Service plugin. But what happens if your archiving demands are more modest? What if you are a small NGO or charity that doesn't really need the powerful features of the Monitoring Service plugin, but wouldn't mind a simple interface to archive and access old conversations? Well, thanks to the Openfire community, you can have your cake and eat it too—albeit minus a few cherries.
Open Archive is an open-source-community plugin that tries to duplicate the look and feel of the Monitoring Service plugin's archive function. And it does a pretty good job of it. But there's a big difference between Open Archive and the Monitoring Service plugin. To quote the Open Archive website:
While Open Archive is basically...