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In the last days I had some issues with the SVN repository. I couldn't manage to upload right from my eclipse workspace, so I had to delete all stuff every now and then. Yesterday I did it again to cleanup the repository for v0.0.4, which is in the queue for this weekend.

So if you want to checkup the SVN sources, please be aware that the repository could change dramatically. Later - when the project is running smoothly - this behavior will stop. I promise. ;-)

Today I removed the webpage because I really was annoyed of the complexity of Nucleus. I just want a place where I can provide users with some basic information:

Where can I download JUsenet?
What is JUsenet?
Do I need it?

Nucleus was definitly a bit too large for this. I'm considering a static page now, maybe with this news feed included somehow. Well, if I have time at the weekend, I'll put some basic stuff on. Yet the webpage will only forward you to our SF project page.

There is another release for JUsenet available. This includes a minor fix and some convenient stuff: you can edit your server settings in a dialog now! No more fiddling with jusenet.ini...

I tried to build 4 packages for this:

+ a complete package including all libraries (named "new")
+ a binary package without libraries
+ a source package
+ a 3rd party library package

You can choose what to download. If you already have all libraries from a previous download, you can just download the new binary package and overwrite all fils.... read more

Today I release the next eary-alpha version of JUsenet. I rewrote it to use Hibernate & HSQLDB in the background to store articles and groups.

For now, you have to run startdb.bat before running jusenet.bat. There are some messages in the command line window saying that the server is running (hopefully) and after JUsenet starts, there will be one or more error message complaining about a missing file called "jusenet.ini".... read more

Today I released the first version of JUsenet. It is far from being complete and more of a tech-demo. But you can connect to a NNTP server, browse the grouplist and read articles. Grab it at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jusenet/JUsenet-0.0.1.zip?download and send me your feedback!

In the next steps of development I try to evaluate the use of a database as a backend. Storing article and group data is a serious issue for my newsreader, because there are a lot of actions you can start on your data.

First, you want to search all article for some text. Second, you want to get all article of a specific author. Third, you want to know how many article are unread.

All this requirements are best met with a database, but unfortunatly a database backend is complicated - for the user and the developer. I try to use something like HSQLDB or SQLite because I want to safe the user work. The user don't want to create a database, don't want to fiddle around with permissions and stuff. He just want to get that application started...... read more

Today I uploaded my first work to the CVS. I started a basic GUI with support for groupview, articlelist and message text. There is no NNTP function included in this upload, but I hope to get first functional parts going this weekend.

I try to add more functions over the next weeks until the newsreader could be used in everyday life. After having all functions to browse groups and read articles, I'll head for the first "official" release, but until then I'll pack some startable JARs for all of you interested users.... read more

FYI - this project is now owned by me, schwarzer_peter. I thought about creating a Java NNTP reader for several months now and I already did some work on it. There was a basic reader with listed group view, article reading and a Get Article By Message-ID-Function, but I restarted the whole thing. With that restart of my own development plans, I took over this abandoned project from sputnik13, the former project admin.... read more