Third party forum evaluation
RS-1309
Java Forums: http://java-source.net/open-source/forum-software (I have skipped most as they don't exist anymore or latest news on their sites were before 2010)
Forum | Easy to integrate in our tech environment (Java, Tomcat, Postresql, REST) | Show/edit HTML, preferably with TinyMCE | Easy to integrate security | Easy to style and integrate GUI into ours | Notes |
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JForum | (+) in Java uses Freemarker (+) MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and HSQLDB |
HTML and BBCode support | Has documentation and examples, still not ready out-of-the-box | Easy to change colours/fonts; uses CSS | |
Yazd | (+) Postgres (+) Java and JSP |
HTML (FCKeditor) | (-) Old fashioned HTML, almost no CSS used | Last release; lacking documentation | |
mvnForum | (+) Postgresql | (-) No HTML support (-) No Formatting toolbar or WYSIWYG editor available |
Free for only limited number if users, threads | ||
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