Trying to use ejabberd

Hi.

I have been trying to evaluate xmpp servers to be used for a project. Have downloaded and installed the base ejabberd server and tried to use the smack 3.1.0 java library to connect to this server. However i end up with the following error when I try to login using the user credentials -

java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.jivesoftware.smack.util.Base64.encodeBytes(Base64.java:636)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.sasl.SASLMechanism.challengeReceived(SASLMechanism.java: 152)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.SASLAuthentication.challengeReceived(SASLAuthentication. java:492)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.parsePackets(PacketReader.java:338)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader.access$000(PacketReader.java:44)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketReader$1.run(PacketReader.java:76)
No response from the server.:
at org.jivesoftware.smack.NonSASLAuthentication.authenticate(NonSASLAuthentication .java:74)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.SASLAuthentication.authenticate(SASLAuthentication.java: 335)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.XMPPConnection.login(XMPPConnection.java:395)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.XMPPConnection.login(XMPPConnection.java:349)
at EJabClient.main(EJabClient.java:60)
java.net.SocketException: Socket closed
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:99)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.writeBytes(StreamEncoder.java:202)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implFlushBuffer(StreamEncoder.java:272)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implFlush(StreamEncoder.java:276)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.flush(StreamEncoder.java:122)
at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.flush(OutputStreamWriter.java:212)
at java.io.BufferedWriter.flush(BufferedWriter.java:236)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketWriter.writePackets(PacketWriter.java:274)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketWriter.access$000(PacketWriter.java:40)
at org.jivesoftware.smack.PacketWriter$1.run(PacketWriter.java:87)

This is the code that I have -

ConnectionConfiguration config = new ConnectionConfiguration(“my.mybeta1.com”, 5222);

XMPPConnection conn2 = new XMPPConnection(config);
conn2.connect();
try{
conn2.login(“nj”, “admin”);
}catch (Exception e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}

The same code (with the same smack verison) seems to work when I connect to the gtalk or the jabber.org servers! is there known limitation with ejabberd for smack? What are my options? Is there a work around? Would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.