Open Source Java Conferencing Software

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom platform built to help teachers teach and learners learn online. It enables real-time collaboration through audio, video, slide presentations, screen sharing, and interactive whiteboards. Educators can actively engage students using polls, emojis, shared notes, multi-user whiteboards, and breakout rooms. The platform includes a Learning Analytics Dashboard that provides moderators with live insights into participant activity and engagement. BigBlueButton also supports session recording and playback, making it ideal for asynchronous learning and content reuse. Designed primarily for education, it adapts seamlessly to online tutoring, flipped classrooms, group collaboration, and large-scale virtual classes.

SSVNC adds encryption security to VNC. It provides a GUI for Windows, MacOSX, and Unix that automatically starts up an SSL or SSH tunnel for connections to any VNC server. It also supports VeNCrypt encryption. The Unix viewer has many new features.

VideoWhisper Live Streaming provides web based live video streaming (from webcam or similar sources). Live Streaming key features: + 1 to many 1 way video streaming + Live chat for viewers + User list with online participants + Channel title + HTML embed code to publish video channel + P2P group streaming support + Session timer and control with scripts + 100% web based for clients The php edition is the easiest choice to setup and run the Live Streaming application on a website. Also to integrate with any php script or content management system that does not have a ready made integration, yet. PHP Live Streaming Edition Highlights: + Create Live Video Channels + Broadcast Live Video from Browser + Share Channels Link/Embed Code + Limit Total Use Time by Channel + Simple Setup + Easy to Install + Full PHP Source Code + Easy to Integrate Requires a RTMP hosting to setup rtmp side (see installation instructions).

Dimdim is an open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No attendee installation - all features are available through a web browser. Dimdim can be integrated with Moodle.

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Please see www.zimbra.com for the latest news and downloads.

TIPcon1 is a standards-compliant soft phone using text, voice and video with accessibility features.

The Collaborative Virtual Workspace is a software environment that provides a "virtual building" where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location. For documentation, see the "Home Page" link above.

GOIM is a Jabber client with special features targeted at gamers. It is based on the eclipse rcp and will include all major jabber features in addition to displaying who in the roster is playing which game on which server and other game related features.

A cross-platform (java based) open source 3d chat platform.. Provides a python programming interface and internal program editor.

Brainlink is a collaborative text editor that utilitizes IP multicasting, written in Java. Brainlink is a port of the Network Text Editor (a research project created at University College London), developed at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

Remote Desktop Access on Mobile phones, supports Bluetooth and GPRS connection. Also very useful for presentation as a remote control. Administrators: Anjan Nepal anjan.nepal (at) gmail (dot) com & Manish Modi manishmodi524 (at) gmail (dot) com

Video Conferencing, Snapchat, Skype & YouTube Video parody Creator & Recorder. Video conferencing that allows you to swap your face with the face of ironman, batman, a tiger, Darth Vader or 2 eye masks. Change your voice to bart simpson or optimus prime or use your own voice in video conferences and when recording. Download YouTube videos of 5 minutes or less in duration. You can download music videos or the videos you will be parodizing. Videos you will parodize must consistently show 1 up to 3 of the faces of the video speakers in the same locations. Parodize any mp4 video that consistently shows the faces of up to three speakers in the same locations. The software picks the most likely viral part of the video for you to parodize - a process that usually takes a couple of minutes. You parodize a video by selecting 1 or more of the video parody features. Double click a video image to Search & Add movie clips to your recording, by movie script word/sentence matching.

XCDE (eXtreme Collaborative Development Environment) is a plugin for Eclipse that adds support for real-time collaborative editing over the Internet, letting developers work on the same files at the same time from up to halfway around the world.

Anka is a collaborative whiteboard - allowing you to draw and share your whiteboard over the internet. The future is here!

A Jabber client for synchronous group discussion, argumentation and conferencing with an interface supporting higher-order thinking. A flexible and configurable tool that can be adapted to particular contexts and problems in education.

Cross-platform Java Teamspeak client

ArCoLIVE provides a set of open source component-based toolkit for multimedia applications such as chat room, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) conversation, virtual white-board, audio/video conferencing, control connection containers, screen capture and file sharing.

tool for argumentation management built using argumentation theories

Real-Time Collaboration (RTC) and conferencing project. This product has been deprecated. Please see the replacement product, CoolCollaborator, at http://coolcollaboratr.sourceforge.net/

Ashcast is a video-chat application fully written in Java, using a Swing GUI. It offers full cam support on MS Windows, Linux and Macintosh systems, and integrates with an IRC based backend for chat.

An offline reader (OLR) for CiX and potentially other conferencing systems (especially ones based on Cosy which is also now hosted on sourceforge)

Avocado is a Java and PHP port of the trust metrics algorithm behind advogato.org, with a new data model, developer tools, and utilities.

Bazaar is a multifunction system that does Web Conferencing, IRC chat, link management, and sgml publication (for the ICAAP system). Bazaar uses MySQL at the back end and features customizable interfaces, API, multiple languages and a host of other f

The Belgian Java Users Group is developing a J2EE based portal for its members. This project is meant to be a repository for all source-code custom created for this portal, it can include specific portlets, fat or thin-client and applications, all providi

Client/Server- based application to present PDF- files via network - consider it as a network beamer :)