Javalobby Community Platform / News: Recent posts

Today JLCP is proud to announce its newest version, 0.5.1. While primarily a bug fix release, there are some new things of note in this release. First, we feature a new layout manager and theme engine written by Paul Hinze. With these two things, we'll be able to create new UIs for JLCP with no effort at all. The other big thing with this release is new support for Tomcat. Using JOTM we are able to add transactions to our standalone tomcat server. The required Jar files for JOTM are in our CVS and we'll be releasing an install doc for running on Tomcat in the next few days. ... read more

Today JLCP released its newest version, 0.5.0 (Delorean) into the wild. Among the highlights of this release are a complete converison to Hibernate, a download center, a partial iCal compliant calendar module and an upgraded links system. You can snag the new release from http://www.sf.net/projects/gotjava. For 1.0 we have planned a CMS, configurable layouts, and a blogging client.

Thanks,
Matt
JLCP Project Leader

I'd like to introduce the Javalobby Community Platform version 0.1.0, a web community system written in Java that aims to provide you with an instant community. Our goal from the start has been to keep things as
simple as possible so that anyone can use the community - basically "Just Add People".

Today marks the start of a new era of Java in the
OpenSource community sphere. This software has come a long way in a short time due to the efforts of a great group of volunteers from Javalobby. Without them, this would not be possible. Here are just a few of the features you can expect from this release: local logins and logouts, buddy lists, private messaging, link addition, polls (partial support), and forums. The UI is also relatively easy to change through Struts Tiles, so please feel free to play around with it. You can
expect a much more robust system when we finish our next release sometime in the coming month or so. ... read more

The JavaDocs from last nights build are online now at http://www.jlcp.org/docs/api. Feel free to check them out. We'll be setting up nightly builds tomorrow which should keep the api docs up-to-date along with providing build status and nightly JUnit testing. Stay tuned for more info.

Matt
Javalobby.org

The Javalobby Community Platform is preparing to release our first version. Right now we plan on having basic forum, poll/survey, account creation, logins and logouts, buddy lists, and hopefully a basic CMS system all wrapped into the start of what we feel is a fairly effective UI. Keep watching both on http://www.javalobby.org and here for more information. You can also check out our progress at our issue tracker on http://jira.jlcp.org... read more

Instead of using standard JDBC connections and prepared statements, the JLCP will now use the latest Hibernate to handle all data access objects and database connectivity. This will help us abstract away any database code and allow us to use many different types of databases without worrying about the underyling database.

Matt

We have started working on the initial components for JLCP. This includes a polling/survey system, a forum engine, and user signon system. We hope to have a workable poll within the week.