Connecting thousands of clients to a Jabber server through a single connection

Question

We are using Openfire (Jabber) to enable chat and presence capabilities to our MMORPG. In our server architecture clients only open a single connection with the game server, and upon login, the game server creates a new connection to Jabber for this new client.

The problem is, we don't want to open a new connection to Jabber for every client that logs in, we like it better if our game server acted as a connection manager and talked to the Jabber server through a single connection, yet being able to manage hundreds of thousands of 'logical' clients.

Is this possible?

Any links or info on this matter would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

Why not have a local Jabber server separate from your game server, but on the same network and let it handle all the messy details?

If you have a massive game, you will most likely also need massive network.

Answer 2

There is already a connection manager for Openfire, open-sourced (though it does need an external library as well that is not OSS). It connects to the clients and from there talks to the main server as a jabber component. It sounds like you want to be able to do a similar thing with your own system.