@mlnews said:

Java-based XMPP Client Spark

die in the fires of hades!

Pidgin is probably your choice then.

Ah, I've not done that, that would explain why I had not seen it in that light.

@bbiAngie said:

My biggest deal was that when I took the class, my book was a few versions behind the OS version they gave us. All of my homework was explaining what it should do and why it wasn't doing it. It was a huge turn off for me.

The turn off should have been for the educational process 😉 That's where the problem was.

No Mac version, they don't have a working Mac build process.