Openfire 5.0.0: A New Era of Real-Time Communication

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When installing Openfire on Microsoft Windows, there are several ways that Openfire can be started. People that are using the Openfire Launcher with Openfire 5.0.0 have reported a bug: the Launcher, instead of starting Openfire, shows an error (as illustrated below).

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We have recorded this bug in our issue tracker as OF-3093, which will be fixed in the next release of Openfire.

In the mean time, you can use one of the following workarounds:

Workaround #1
It is preferred to start Openfire as a service, not through this launcher. Starting Openfire as a service does not suffer from the problem above.

Workaround #2
I you’d like to use the launcher, you can work around the problem as follows

  1. Download this file: openfire500quickfix.jar (186.9 KB)
  2. Save the file (unmodified) in the lib folder of your Openfire installation, for example, in C:\Openfire\lib\ (not in C:\Openfire).

The Launcher will now work as before.

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