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<h1>Jive Messenger</h1>
<p> Jive Messenger provides comprehensive group chat and instant
messaging (IM) services to online and intranet user communities using
the XMPP protocol.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Jive Software also offers a high-quality Open-Source Java client library 
called <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.org/smack"> Smack </a> . 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.</p>

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  <li> <a href="install-guide.html">Installation Guide</a> -
How to manually install the server as standalone application.</li>
  <li> <a href="database.html">Database Installation Guide</a> - How
to setup your database for use with Jive Messenger.</li>
  <li> <a href="database-guide.html">Database Schema Guide</a> - A
tour of the Jive Messenger database schema for developers and database
administrators.</li>
  <li> <a href="ssl-guide.html">SSL Guide</a> - A guide to setting up
Messenger's SSL secure socket support.</li>
  <li> <a href="ldap-guide.html">LDAP Guide</a> - A guide to setting
up Jive Messenger to work with LDAP user stores.</li>

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<p>An active support community for Jive Messenger is available at <a
 href="http://www.jivesoftware.org/forums">http://www.jivesoftware.org/forums</a>.</p></body>
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