XMPP chat app architecture suggestion

Question

I have a chat app having web service installed on tomcat server, ejabberd as XMPP server. Right now i am using strophe.js on client side to directly communicate with ejabberd server for chatting purpose.

Is this correct chat app design ? or shall I send chat through tomcat server so that xmpp server is not accessible directly from client side ? Can anyon suggest a better design ?

Answer 1

You should connect your clients directly to ejabberd (or through a proxy like NGinx). ejabberd is designed to receive lot of traffic directly and using Tomcat as proxy will not be scalable and is not recommended.