## About

Copyright © 2004-2016 Tigase.org. <http://www.tigase.org/>

The Tigase Jabber/XMPP Server is Open Source and Free (AGPLv3) Java based server.

The server offers complete implementation of the XMPP protocol with a long list of extensions. Effcient, reliable and very extensible can be easily integrated it with your systems.

The unique features of the Tigase server are

1. High performance and scalability. Was tested with up to 500 000 concurrent users connected to a single machine and in cluster with over 1mln online users.
2. High reliability. Tries to run as long as possible and tried to automaticaly recover from detected problems.
3. Built-in many self monitoring functions. You can check your systems statistics via XMPP, JMX, HTTP, SNMP or you can automatically receive notifications about possible problems.
4. Scripting support - scripts can be loaded/reloaded at run time. Many scripting languages are supported
5. Virtual hosts support. You can have virtually unlimited virtual hosts which can be added/removed at runtime. You can temporarily block vhost or limit number of users per vhost.
6. There is much more... check the official change log and the project website.

Contributions to Tigase have been made by the following people:

- Tigase Team
- Eric Dziwea
- Artur Hefczyc (kobit)
- Wojciech Kapcia (wojtek)
- Bartosz Małkowski (bmalkow)
- Daniel Wisnewski
- Andrzej Wojcik
- Other Contributors
- Mateusz Fiołka
- Tomasz Sterna (smoku)
- Daniele Ricci
- ... and many others.

## Installtion, configuration and compilation

The most recent documentation on all these topics is always available in the project documentation website: www.tigase.org. Please refer to the website for all the details and always up to date guides.

You would probably want to start with Quick Start: Tigase Quick Start documentation.

It is recommended that if you run into any issues, visit Tigase Projects website to visit forums and view trouble tickets that may already have an answer to your question. Different components may be in different sections of the projects website. Please ask general questions in the forum section of each project. For example, the Tigase XMPP Server forums are located here.

The website also contains lots of other useful information like load tests results, user discussions and online support and help always available to you.

This is 8.0.0-RC1--b${gitVersion} release of the server. Please include the exact version number in all correspondence regarding the server.