Bodington is a free, instiutional scale VLE implemented and supported by a wide group of educational
institutions, led by Oxford, UHI, Leeds and Machester. More information can be found at
http://bodington.org.
This release, 2.6.0, is a major production release and includes support for many
enhancements and new features:
* Ant support - for developers (ant.apache.org)
* Jave 1.5 support
* Context listener support
* Default use of log4J for better logging
* Native implementation of HSQLDB (www.hsqldb.org)
* Quickstart for rapid deployment and evaluation - not meant for production use!
* Setup simplification, to get your bod up and running even faster.
* Textblock/Announcements resource - a flexible test resource placeable anywhere on a page.
* EasyBuilder - a content creation wizard.
* New default look and feel.
* UI consistency improvements.
* i18n supports - supports i12n unicode locales.
* HTML widgets for text formatting into content and resources.
* Timed resource controls to allow for windows of resource availability.
* Tab panel - replace the LH frame with handy dandy widgets, the bod dashboard!
* Better login process.
* LDAP AuthN
* IMS CP Import 1.0-1.1.4 support
* IMS CP Export 1.1.14 support
* GX 1.2 IdP Support - make bodington your login for Shibboleth IdP! (guanxi.sourceforge.net)
* System optimizations for improved efficiency and performance, including a handy new object tree!