Applets have always been designed to play in a "sandbox" in which they can't hurt anything on a user's system, so their security is tighter than that of their server-based application counterparts. But what if you want an applet that can make arbitrary Web requests? This article shows you how to work around this problem by building a server-based proxy. It also shows you how to use JavaScript code to access applet-based information.

Features: Completely stand-alone server; Configurable database schema - you may use any RDBMS system which has appropriate JDBC driver. From now you can use your own tables to make SIM server works! Just specify your custom tables for authentication and contact list; Low traffic usage; Has powerfull template-supporting engine. This is Java-applet which connects to the server at startup and allows you to chat with any user which currently on server.

Everybuddy Java (EBJava) is a messaging system written in Java. It consists of an applet and a server, and is used to log in to existing messaging services (AIM, ICQ, etc) through a unified interface. User settings are also stored on the server.