The Venice Web Communities System
Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@users.sf.net> for Silverwrist Design Studios
Release 0.0.1 (Development), April 19, 2001
SourceForge Home: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/venice/>
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Description:
The Venice Web Communities System is a system for supporting online
communities and special interest groups. A single Venice server will
support multiple communities, and all users authenticating themselves with
the Venice server will be able to join any community based on that server.
Communities support multiple features, the first of which will be Web-based
linear conferencing (along the lines of WellEngaged, UBB, and other
conferencing systems). Features to be added thereafter include instant
messaging and chat (which will be based on the Jabber open-source
instant-messaging system), calendars, link directories, e-mail newsletters,
and possibly advanced features such as collaborative databases and content
creation/publishing.
Implementation:
Venice is written in Java using Java Servlet and JSP technologies, and
runs under the Apache Tomcat applications server, release 3.2. It is
written to version 1.2.2 of the Java SDK (Java 2). It also employs the
Sun Java API for XML Parsing, the JavaMail API (and associated JavaBeans
Activation Framework), and the Apache LOG4J logging class library. It
uses MySQL 3.23 as a database back end, via the mm.mysql JDBC drivers.
Licensing:
Venice is licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, Version
1.1. See the file LICENSE for details.
History:
Venice's designed capabilities stem from the requirements for the Electric
Minds online community, which originally ran on the WellEngaged
conferencing software and was later ported to Durand Communications'
CommunityWare online community system (which later became the "WebbMe"
portal system of Webb Interactive Services). WebbMe will shut down at the
end of January 2001, leaving the community homeless; Venice is intended to
provide it with a permanent, open-source home.
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Directory Structure:
doc/ - Documentation, notes, and images to be used later
etc/ - Configuration files
lib/ - .JAR files (this is where the mm.mysql driver lives)
setup/ - Files used in setup, notably the database initialization script
src/ - The source code itself
web/ - Web content and images
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