OpenUSS and FSL Integrated Release 1.4

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First Integrated Release of OpenUSS and FSL!
LMS: OpenUSS - Open University Support System
LCS: FSL - Freestyle Learning
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OpenUSS
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OpenUSS is a J2EE- and GPL-based Learning Management System (LMS).
If you need to have an online eLearning platform to manage your
lectures, build communities, OpenUSS will be the best investment
for your institution!

Like
-> Apache for web server,
-> JOnAS and JBoss for EJB server,
-> Tomcat and Enhydra for servlet server,
OpenUSS is targeted to take over the market for Learning Management
Systems (LMS). At least we believe that, LMS are also general-purpose,
commoditized, horizontal infrastructure software.
-> OpenUSS for LMS!

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FSL
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FSL is a J2SE and GPL-based Learning Content System (LCS).
If you need to build and execute multimedia contents, FSL will be the
best choice!

Like
-> OpenOffice for office contents creation and execution.
FSL has the purpose to let you create and execute your
multimedia contents,
-> Macromedia Flash for animations,
-> FSL for LCS!

OpenUSS and FSL are infrastructure software for every organizations,
institutions, which have a need to build an eLearning platform
and communities:
- universities,
- schools,
- communities,
- training companies and
- companies in general, which offer direct training to their workers.

For an introduction please read the followng article:
"Learning Java Programming Language with Open Source Products and Technologies."
http://edu.netbeans.org/support/oss.html

Have a lot of fun!

BTW. We are really happy if you want to join us! You can
just build your own components and we can integrate them
into OpenUSS and FSL.

Have a lot of fun!
Lofi Dewanto.

OpenUSS Homepage
http://openuss.sourceforge.net
FSL Homepage
http://www.freestyle-learning.de

OpenUSS and FSL at SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openuss
Reference Implementation
http://www.openuss.org
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OpenUSS Team and Workgroups for version 1.4 and FSL version 3.2
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Prof. Dr. Heinz Lothar Grob (http://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/aw)
Dr. Frank Bensberg
Dr. Jan vom Brocke

FSL architect, main development:
Mirko Wahn (awmiwa@wi.uni-muenster.de)

OpenUSS architect, main development:
Lofi Dewanto (dewanto@uni-muenster.de)

OpenUSS main development, components development,
spanish translation, skins development, documentation:
Arturo Morales (et@linux.ajusco.upn.mx)
Ricardo Beltran (pks@linux.ajusco.upn.mx)

OpenUSS new look&feel and CSS design, support, German
language resources:
Philipp Heltewig (openuss@heltewig.de)

Formula editor for OpenUSS - OpenFormula:
Prof. Dr. Herbert Kuchen (http://www.wi.uni-muenster.de/pi)
Jan Kirchhoff (jkirchhoff@gmx.de)

French translation:
Thierry.Nodenot (Thierry.Nodenot@iutbayonne.univ-pau.fr)

OpenUSS marketing and user support:
Alexander Ludi (openuss@yahoo.com)

EJOSA Template, architect, main development:
Lofi Dewanto (dewanto@uni-muenster.de)

Again, I would like to thank to all the people above, who have done a great job to help OpenUSS and FSL reach this maturity level by now!
Also many thanks to all others, who already support us!
OpenUSS Members: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openuss

Cologne, 4th. June 2004,
Thank you!
Lofi Dewanto.
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OpenUSS Version 1.4 and FSL 3.2
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*** For users ***

- New design! OpenUSS looks pretty nice now. We use CSS and all the
skins are now based on CSS as well. It is very easy to make your
own skin!

- OpenUSS and FSL use the same concept: "Multi-Perspectives Concept".
In OpenUSS you will find an enrollment of lecture with many
perspectives (lecture materials, discussion, mailinglist, etc.).
In FSL you will also find a learning unit with many perspectives
(intro, text study, etc.). All these perspectives are easy to extend
thanks to the component architecture of OpenUSS and FSL.

If you work with Eclipse, you will see that this concept is
just similar to Eclipse perspectives concept, which for example
shows many perspectives (code, resource, cvs, etc.) for each project.

- OpenFormula integration. The discussion forum supports formula
editor based on Java applet, to let you write your formulas easily.

- Profile for students and assistants are included.

- New perspective: FSL Installation/Download. Within this perspective
you can install FSL automatically from the network.

- From within FSL you can now directly register as an OpenUSS user.

- A lot of new functionalities!

*** For developers ***

- OpenUSS 1.4 is still based on EJOSA Template 1.3.5.
The use of EJOSA Template Revolutions 2.0 should be done
in the next version of OpenUSS 2.0 Revolutions.

More information about EJOSA
EJOSA = Enterprise Java Open Source Architecture
EJOSA = Enhydra and JOnAS Application
http://ejosa.sourceforge.net

New Release of EJOSA 2.0 Revolutions:
http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=25957

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OpenUSS 2.0 To Do
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Next steps and coming features:
- Update to EJOSA Revolutions 2.0 with MDA (Model Driven Architecture).
- Integration of OpenFjord (http://openfjord.sourceforge.net).
- Integration of OpenCPMS (Controlling of LMS OpenUSS).
- Integration of OpenGroup (Groups building component).
- Integration of Seminars Allocation System - Savus
(http://savus.sourceforge.net).
- Integration of lportal EJB components as perspectives in OpenUSS
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal).

If you want to help us, please do not hesitate contacting us at
our developer mailinglist at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openuss
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INSTALL:

- Download openuss1.4-prog.zip at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openuss/openuss1.4-prog.zip?download
- Unzip the openuss1.4.zip (application and sourcecodes)
file to your choosen directory. Example: /program/openuss
DO NOT use empty spaces within your directory!

- Download openuss1.4-ext-libs.zip at
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/openuss/openuss1.4-ext-libs.zip?download
- Unzip the openuss1.4-ext-libs.zip (external libraries needed)
file to the "ext-libs" directory within openuss. Example:
/program/openuss/ext-libs

- Make sure that you have the following structure now:
/program/openuss/
/program/openuss/dev-all
/program/openuss/dev-...
/program/openuss/ext-libs
/program/openuss/ext-libs/enhydra.jar
/program/openuss/ext-libs/...
/program/openuss/ext-libs/enhydra/...
- No other libraries needed. All included! Please read
openuss/ext-libs/readme-external-libs.txt to see

Please read readme.txt, install-quick.txt or install.txt for further information!

Lofi Dewanto.