JForum Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://www.jforum.net |
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| Download here: | Download JForum |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | BSD License. |
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| Current version: | 2.1.6 (March 1, 2006). |
| Price: | Free. |
What is JForum?
JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.
Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.
Best of all, JForum is freely available under the BSD Open Source license.
If you or your company are searching for a serious and robust Forum Software, JForum is the right choice.
Key Features
- Ultra fast
- Fully customizable user interface
- Secure and highly customizable permission control
- Multi-language support
- Multi-database support
- Open Source
Server & Clients Requirements
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Operating Systems
Systems supporting this software.
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Web Server 
Web servers host the forum software.
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Languages
Development language.
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Databases
Systems that store forum datas.
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Compatible Browsers
List of compatible browsers.
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Required Plugins/Technologies
What the user needs exactly to use this forum correctly.
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Localization
Languages supported by JForum.
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 Yes.
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JForum uses the benefit of the J2EE platform, with database connection pools, localization, database independent implementation, and even clustering (depending on which Application Server you use).
For example, it is really simple to increase max numbers of connections and JForum developers did not have to implement this, because this is supported by default by the J2EE application servers.
The demonstration has been installed on a Tomcat 5.5.17, proxied under a Apache 2.2 (using mod_jk), which is a really secure and classical solution.
Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Social Networks
Users can share information from their social network account...
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No. |
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Thread Icons
An icon that identifies the type of a topic.
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 Unknown |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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No. |
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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Unknown |
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Spell Checking
Posts and topics are spelled checked with a dictionary.
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Unknown |
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Detect Duplicate Threads
Duplicate Threads are detected before creation.
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Unknown |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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Unknown |
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Post Editing Form
Details about the manner to post messages.
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Emoticons
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Yes |
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Post Editing Format
Markup Language (HTML, Wiki, BBCode,...).
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Attachments
Attach files (screenshot, archive,...) with a post.
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Yes |
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Post Quoting
Quoting a post helps readers understand who answers who.
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Unknown |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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Unknown |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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Unknown |
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Key Features & Additional Tools
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Bundled Softwares
Softwares that are also available with the forum.
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No. |
Users List
List of all user accounts, to helps users searching their friends.
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Yes |
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Private Messages
Users can communicate using an internal messaging system.
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Yes |
Online Users List
List of actually connected users, in the forum home page, a dedicated topic,...
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Unknown |
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Instant Messaging
Communicate in the forum like in other IM (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk,...)
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 No |
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Unknown |
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Calendar
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No |
Remote Control
Remote control from external softwares or websites.
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No. |
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Poll Creation
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No |
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
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Unknown |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators
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We cannot really say that JForum is modular, because you can extend its model, neither add various features to the default installation. This is really a pity, especially when you know that Object-oriented languages like Java allows to add easily 3rd party extensions.
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