Open AIM 2.0 for developers

AOL has released version 2.0 of Open AIM. This is a huge improvement for developers, both in terms of possibilities due to few to none restrictions being placed on the developer by the license agreement and also in terms of the level of openness of the API.

The Open AIM protocol (named OSCAR) is completely documented and sample code for C#, C++ and Java are provided on the Open AIM site. A complete JavaScript library is available for developers that wish to embed AIM in their webpages. SDK’s are available for Windows, Linux, Windows Mobile and Mac OS X.

The Open AIM libraries rely on the new clientLogin extension to the OpenAuth API, that documentation is now publicly available at http://dev.aol.com/openauth_api which allows for both:

1.     Authentication for Web Sites and Browser based Web-Apps
2.     Authentication for Desktop Clients and Flash/AIR Apps

Happy coding.

- Mark Blomsma