Sciurus is an instant messenging program written entirely in Java 1.5. It is built on using JOSTL to communicate over the AIM network. You can log in with your AIM/ICQ account and talk to your buddies with a simple and ad-free chat client. There is no installation required. Just download, extract, and run.

There are multiple ways to customize Sciurus to give you a better chatting experience. With a few images and a very easy to create theme script, you can make the client window look almost any way you want. And with its "friendly names" feature, you can rename the buddies on your list to whatever you want and never forget who "~~XOoVoOX~~" is suppose to be.

And because Sciurus is written in Java, you can run it on just about any operating system, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and others.

You can view the project page to follow along with it's development and to keep up to date with the latest news and features.

JOSTL stands for "Java Open-Source TOC2 Library" and was written using Java 1.5. The library is an implementation of AOL's TOC2 IM protocol. TOC is an ASCII-based protocol and acts as a wrapper for AOL's proprietary OSCAR protocol.

The majority of TOC2 features have been implemented but not yet fully tested. New additions are better tested as they get implemented into Sciurus' GUI.

Development continues, but has slowed down some since the creation of Sciurus. Development has already begun on a C#.NET port of this library with future plans to possibly port it over to PureBasic as well.

CTL stands for "C# TOC2 Library" and was written using .NET 1.1. The library is a C# port of JOSTL and is now being developed in parallel with JOSTL to keep the features between the two the same.