Tal Liron is working on an AOL Instant Messenger server using joscar. It’s a very cool project, involving bridging many IM protocols. I’m excited because this will be the first real AIM server implementation using joscar. I’ll post a link here when he has a website and more information ready.
Some people have started using the oscar.jar OSCAR library I mentioned in a previous post, and it’s going pretty well from what I hear. I figure if people start getting into it, I might javadocument it and add full buddy list support and file transfer and all the things we’ve all come to love. (Currently you can use the buddy list to its fullest, and you can do file transfer, but only by manipulating SNAC commands at the protocol layer, instead of at the big fluffy oscar.jar layer.)
oscar.jar has not been officially released, but anyone who wants it can have it.