Jive Messenger

Jive Messenger provides comprehensive group chat and instant messaging (IM) services to online and intranet user communities using the XMPP protocol.

As a pure Java application, the server is designed for extensible and flexible deployment into new or existing infrastructure. The server contains a pluggable backend data storage and security system and interfaces for customizing and extending the server.

Jive Software also offers a high-quality Open-Source Java client library called Smack . The Smack library makes it easy to write custom clients in Java for communicating over IM or chat with XMPP servers. In addition, Jive Messenger will work with any standards compliant XMPP client.

• Installation Guide - How to manually install the server as standalone application.
• Database Installation Guide - How to setup your database for use with Jive Messenger.
• Database Schema Guide - A tour of the Jive Messenger database schema for developers and database administrators.
• SSL Guide - A guide to setting up Messenger's SSL secure socket support.
• LDAP Guide - A guide to setting up Jive Messenger to work with LDAP user stores.

An active support community for Jive Messenger is available at http://www.jivesoftware.org/forums.