MVN Forum Review - General Features & Requirements
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| Web Site: | http://www.mvnforum.com |
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| Download here: | Download MVN Forum |
| Community Forum: | Support |
| Released under: | GPL License. |
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| Current version: | 1.2.1 GA (November 20, 2008). |
| Sponsored By: | MVN. |
| Price: | Open Source Edition: Free - Enterprise Edition: $1,499. |
From MVN Forum Website:
mvnForum is an open source, powerful, easy to use, easy to setup bulletin board (forum) built on the Java J2EE technology (Jsp/Servlet). mvnForum is compatible with any Servlet Containers which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. mvnFourm is free, open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It means that you could use it free of charge to build your own discussion communities.
mvnForum Enterprise Edition is an advanced version of mvnForum. It has a lot of features that Open Source Edition lacks, for example: Poll, Email Gateway, Hierarchy Categories, Statistics Report, Event Log Management ...
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 MVN Forum.
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 Yes.
23 languages supported. |
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MVN Forum uses JDBC connection, and is compliant with major database systems, including the HDBSQL memory-based database.
Forum Threads & Posts
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Forum Style
General appearance of the topics.
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Flat |
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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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Yes |
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Forum Organization
Organize your forum with categories, sections,...
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Sticky Threads
Sticky threads stay at top of a section or a forum.
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Yes |
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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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 No |
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Shadow Topics
Some topics are only accessible to a limited list of users.
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No |
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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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Yes |
Syntax Highlighting
Posted Source Code is formatted using colors.
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Yes |
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Post Rating
Users can rate the quality of other users posts.
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No |
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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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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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Yes |
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Instant Messaging
Users can communicate in the forum like in other IM softwares (Yahoo Messenger, Live Messenger, Google Talk, AIM,...)
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No |
Quick Reply Box
Write a post directly from the topic page.
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Yes |
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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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 Plugin |
Friendly URLs
URLs are as short and simple as possible (for better copy/paste and share).
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Yes |
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RSS/Atom Syndication
New posts and threads available using aggregators (represented by the
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Polls and Forum Sub-sections are only available on Enterprise Edition.
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