Forum Software Reviews

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

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.

Unfortunately, JForum uses the default PhpBB template, Subsilver, which does not respect the W3C norms.

The power of Java will however give other advantages, like localization, which is bundled by default with the software.