jzForum is a simple forum written in Java. Here is a short list of features:
- supports several forums
- rss feeds for forums/categories/threads
- user and right management
- uses jZonic as framework
- easy to install (one war file and NO database)
- uses hypersonic as database but can run with different databases
- easy to change the look and feel (jzForum uses css and nearly no tables)
- 3 different roles (user, moderator and admin) with a defined set of permissions
- support for different themes (currently 4 different ones)
- every user can select his favourite theme in his settings
- included full text search engine (using lucene)
- user can watch threads
- i18n support (english and german currently). The i18n is on a user base.
- full featured voting subsystem integrated
- generate access log file in Apache log format which can be analyzed by any standard compliant tool
- very fast due to heavily caching
- supports MySQL as alternative database
- private messaging with user quota
- includes a polling system
- full support of the famous BBCode
- preview pane when posting a new post using AJAX to get rid off reload of the page
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