Tigase is an open source (GNU AGPL-3.0-only) project started by Artur Hefczyc in October 2004 to develop an XMPP server implementation in Java.
Initially the goal was to develop a fully compliant XMPP server with backward compatibility with an informal XMPP specification. In time the project has been split into smaller parts – server implementation, XML tools containing a parser for XML streams and a test suite with a built-in scripting language. In summer 2006, the client-side library and application in Java have joined the Tigase project. In November 2013, Tigase added a REST API layer project, and later HTTP tools - AdminUI.
In 2018 IoT1 cloud was launched - bringing all XMPP and all Tigase software together to facilitate IoT devices communication.
Tigase is currently in active development - on 19th of December 2022 Tigase XMPP Server 8.3.0 was released.
Subprojects
Now Tigase consists of following subprojects:
Server
Server-side related projects
Tigase XMPP Server – main XMPP server implementation
Tigase XMLTools – XML tools, parser simple XML database
Tigase Utils – Repository with common files used in other Tigase subprojects
Tigase TestSuite – suite of functional tests for XMPP servers
Tigase XMPP Server Command Line Management Tool – Command Line Management Tool
Tigase MUC - component allowing creating group chatrooms
Tigase PubSub - implementation of XEP-0060: Publish-Subscribe extension
Tigase Message Archiving - Component for the Tigase XMPP Server as the server component, implementing XEP-0136: Message Archiving Tigase Socks5 Proxy - XEP-0065: SOCKS5 Bytestreams implementation for the Tigase XMPP Server component allowing file transfer between clients Tigase STUN - implementation of STUN protocol Tigase HTTP API - HTTP component providing REST API, web-based installer and AdminUI.