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Other Certs: SCEA Part 1, Part 2 & 3, Core Spring 3, TOGAF part 1 and part 2
Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Brian,
When we converted to JForum, it was still under active development at jforum.net. I don't know why it isn't anymore, but I'm guessing the official project is abandoned.
While we are the largest install of JForum, there are others. For example, I know JavaBlackBelt is using it.
As far as support, we are Java developers. We can support our install ourself. We could have written it ourself, but that it time consuming.
I think it depends on whether you want to be able to tweak without learning PHP.
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Other Certs: SCEA Part 1, Part 2 & 3, Core Spring 3, TOGAF part 1 and part 2
Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:We did look at other packages, but it was over two years ago. Things change so I don't know that the results of our research are still valid.
It says they have been working on v3 for a long time. At the beginning that was activity in the forum discussing it. I think things have stopped based on the website.
Ulf Dittmer wrote:The ones that were looked at -to the point of actually installing and playing around with them- were mvnForum and Jive, and both were found wanting for our particular purposes. I can't be more specific since that was before my time as a moderator here (which also means that both may have evolved significantly since then - and it looks as if at least Jive has indeed changed much). JavaBB was still pre-1.0 back then; maybe it's a contender now.
Brian Braun Mitman wrote: And regarding support, I guess I can contact you guys!
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:(since it uses velocity instead of JSPs!)
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:
Brian Braun Mitman wrote: And regarding support, I guess I can contact you guys!
Indeed, the official forums might be dead, but we're more than happy to help out right here.
Regarding other things we looked at: I know a little bit more about the Jive and Mvnforum efforts. Honestly, I think either one of them would have been OK, but neither effort gathered the critical mass of staff needed to see them to completion. Both products had some problems and JForum was superior in those respects: Jive was, at the time, virtually 100% implemented as scriptlet-heavy JSPs, which we didn't like as an architecture. mvnforum also had scriptlet-heavy JSPs, plus a very dense and confusing data access layer that we weren't too excited about mucking with. JForum has no scriptlets at all (since it uses velocity instead of JSPs!) and the data layer is really quite elegant IMO.
Gregg Bolinger wrote:
Freemarker, actually. But 6 one way, half a dozen the other.
I agree. Here's the link: http://javaranch.com/programming-pearls.jsp |