I would also look at RabbitMQ as the messaging service and the STOMP protocol to talk to everybody. As far as getting messages down to the browser. Use http:/

I would also look at RabbitMQ as the messaging service and the STOMP protocol to talk to everybody. As far as getting messages down to the browser. Use http://orbited.org http://orbited.org It gives you a simulated TCP socket called WebSocket(soon to be standard in HTML5) http://js.io http://js.io has some work on many common network protocols including XMPP and STOMP. If this is a very small deploy, you might skip RabbitMQ and use the sister prject of Orbited, Morbid.