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53 lines
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The Venice Web Communities System
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Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@silcom.com> for Silverwrist Design Studios
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In Development, January 21, 2001
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SourceForge Home: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/venice/>
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Description:
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The Venice Web Communities System is a system for supporting online
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communities and special interest groups. A single Venice server will
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support multiple SIGs, and all users authenticating themselves with the
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Venice server will be able to join any SIG based on that server.
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SIGs support multiple features, the first of which will be Web-based linear
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conferencing (along the lines of WellEngaged, UBB, and other conferencing
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systems). Features to be added thereafter include instant messaging and
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chat (which will be based on the Jabber open-source instant-messaging
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system), calendars, link directories, e-mail newsletters, and possibly
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advanced features such as collaborative databases and content creation/
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publishing.
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Implementation:
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Venice is written in Java using Java Servlet and JSP technologies, and
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runs under the Apache Tomcat applications server, release 3.2. It is
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written to version 1.2.2 of the Java SDK (Java 2). It also employs the
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Sun Java API for XML Parsing, the JavaMail API (and associated JavaBeans
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Activation Framework), and the Apache LOG4J logging class library. It
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uses MySQL 3.23 as a database back end, via the mm.mysql JDBC drivers.
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Licensing:
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Venice is licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, Version
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1.1. See the file LICENSE for details.
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History:
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Venice's designed capabilities stem from the requirements for the Electric
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Minds online community, which originally ran on the WellEngaged
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conferencing software and was later ported to Durand Communications'
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CommunityWare online community system (which later became the "WebbMe"
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portal system of Webb Interactive Services). WebbMe will shut down at the
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end of January 2001, leaving the community homeless; Venice is intended to
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provide it with a permanent, open-source home.
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Directory Structure:
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doc/ - Documentation, notes, and images to be used later
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etc/ - Configuration files
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lib/ - .JAR files (this is where the mm.mysql driver lives)
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setup/ - Files used in setup, notably the database initialization script
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src/ - The source code itself
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web/ - Web content and images
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