Coversant, provider of inter-enterprise Collaborative Messaging software, announced that a complete suite of open source software developer kits (SDKs) for building custom XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) based collaboration applications are available at Coversant's new online Developer Community at http://developers.coversant.net The developer community provides the latest source code and documentation as well as a forum for support and the exchange of new ideas. With more than two million users, Coversant is showing expansive growth of its XMPP solutions and its commitment to software developers.

The open source SDKs, together known as the SoapBox Studio, are freely available for the x86, x64, and IA64 platforms with support for the following .NET frameworks:
-- Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
-- Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0
-- Novell's Mono open source framework (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Unix)

"It's time to inspire a new era of integrated XMPP messaging and collaboration development," states Jason Frankel, CEO of Coversant. "Through our new developer community, Coversant will be working closely with software publishers to give their customers the ability to collaborate on content and communicate more effectively."

"Coversant's open source SDKs give us a new avenue to provide services to a broader range of customers," said Glenn Clapp, Director of Engineering Services, WiLife. "We can now more easily open portions of our services for integration by third-party developers. By using XMPP it is very easy for us to provide a custom solution to integrate with each other's products."

The SoapBox Studio is licensed under the LGPL ("GNU Lesser General Public License") open source license. Each of the SDKs it contains were formerly called the SoapBox Framework, sold as separate editions.