The following sections discuss development against the Jive platform, from simple modifications such as theming which change the look and feel of a community, to coding your own custom applications and plugins to work inside of Jive.
This documentation links to a variety of API resources. The future direction of third-party Jive development, however, is through Apps, lightweight programs that operate within Jive, communicate with the activity stream, and can leverage information from both Jive and other enterprise programs. You can read detailed information about developing Apps and using the required APIs on the Jive Apps Developer Community at https://developers.jivesoftware.com/community/community/docs.