Collaba
Collaba is a multimedia collaboration and communication server built to provide digital workspaces to virtual educational, corporate, and other communities. It features secure email (Web, POP3/SMTP, crypto, and anti-spam), online forums (Web, RSS, NNTP, and podcast), blogs (Web, RSS, podcast), multimedia chat (text, multimedia panel, etc.), personal and group calendering, address books, bookmarks, an online Web page editor, file services and CMS (Web, WebDAV, FTP, SMB, CIFS, anvi-virus API, and ClamAV support), digital portfolio, dynamic news board, directory access, support for multiple independent communities on one server, Single-Sign-On features (built-in support for LDAP, CAS 2.0, JAAS, SMTP-Auth and more, powerful developer API), full online server management, anti-spam (RBL and filters), anti-virus support, centralized management with LDAP directories, Web publishing of personal, group or general web sites, developer APIs, and much more.
| Tags | Communications Conferencing Email education Internet FTP Web Dynamic Content multimedia Office/Business groupware Chat Post-Office File Sharing Information Management Message Boards News/Diary HTTP Servers |
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| Operating Systems | Mac OS X Windows Windows Windows OS Independent Unix |
| Implementation | Java |
| Translations | English French |
Recent releases
- 29 Apr 2009 23:49
Changes: This release introduces a completely new product line, a modernized user interface, a new demo interfaces, more flexible blog appearance customization, a smart wiki editor with section detection, the ability to include relative links and images in wiki articles, a new local wiki namespace making it easier to integrate wiki-powered content into Web pages, a new user-friendly installer for MacOS X, and dozens of other enhancements, improvements, and fixes.
- 11 Feb 2009 00:51
Changes: The default Web server engine is now Apache Tomcat 6 (Embedded). It can also run as a standard Java servlet within a standard Tomcat 6 installation. This release also features a new Apache Ant-based startup system, smoother startup without root access, a new AJAX-based live chat module, a built-in Comet API, numerous under-the-hood changes in preparation for the upcoming transition to Apache Struts 2 + JSP + Tiles, and hundreds of other enhancements, improvements, and fixes.
- 26 Jun 2008 12:27
Changes: Support for Zoho, a powerful on-line office suite, significant performance and stability improvements, an enhanced Single-Sign-On expansion API, and an improved built-in CAS authentication server. RSS feeds can now be displayed directly in the Bookmarks module. Multimedia blog attachments now displayed in-line. Support for YouTube, GoogleMaps, and other special objects was improved. Support for Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla Thunderbird+Lightning, and others was added. LDAP synchronization performance was improved on high-traffic sites. There were hundreds of other changes.
- 30 Apr 2008 10:34
Changes: This is a major release that introduces significant changes in the platform's architecture. Instead of the monolithic structure of 7.0 and earlier releases, this version is based on a kernel (application server), an application layer, and a developer interface layer. An extensive cleanup of the code base and of the external libraries has also been completed. Finally, this release includes hundreds of enhancements, additions (including a WIKI feature), changes, and fixes.
- 07 Feb 2008 10:34
Changes: This release reshapes the entire product line by presenting a unified platform with a single non-limited list of features, a new licensing structure, and a new pricing list. There are no more "reduced" versions to get better pricing; all features are now available to everyone under one low-cost pricing list. This version also adds support for Java 6.0, increases server core performance significantly, and provides improvements in many areas: WebDAV server, RSS reader, anti-virus scanning, user privileges, disk quotas, and many more.
