Go Green JForum

The JAVA Based Discussion Board

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in JAVA. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss.

If you or your company are searching for a serious and robust Forum Software, JForum is the right choice.

JForum in Production


JForum is being proudly hosted by many companies worldwide. Some of them are:

JavaRanch: The biggest forum about Java in the world, with more than 197,000 users and 2,000,000 messages (http://www.coderanch.com/forums).
eSnips: is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. JForum@esnips has more than 125,000 users. (http://forum.esnips.com/forums/list.page)
spore: is an official Forum of Electronic Arts - EA Sports. Spore has more than 60,000 users and 1,423,123 messages (http://forum.spore.com/jforum/forums/list.page)
GUJ: is a virtual user group from Brazil, one of the most influent and active group in the community. Having 66000+ users and 747,000+ messages, who every day discuss about Java, make articles and disseminates Java in the country. (http://www.guj.com.br/forums/list.java).
Command and Conquer: Forum about games, with more than 22,000 users and 380,000 messages (http://forums.commandandconquer.com/jforum/forums/list.page).
And Many more like Mentawai Framework, jCVS, MEN and MICE, FIEC, CMS Container Forum, Claros, SQL POWER, Java Black Belt, J2SKI

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General Features

Unlimited forums, categories, and topics

Support for several popular databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and HSQLDB

Karma - Rate messages and users

Bookmarks - save your favourite threads and share with other users

Easy migration from phpBB

Friendly URLs (no more long and hard-to-remember links!)

Listing of currently online users

Listing of the Most Recent topics from the whole forum

Fast and scalable, perfect for busy sites - unlike most message board systems, JForum caches frequently accessed data to avoid excessive querying of the database

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Posting Messages

File Attachments, with fully customizable options

HTML and BBCode support

Automatic parsing of links in messages

Integrated private message system

Email notifications for topics on private messages

Unlimited emoticons, easily administered via a configuration panel

RSS syndication

Sticky topics and announcements

Post preview


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Moderation

Easy to moderate

Topics can be moved between forums

Topics can be locked/unlocked and moved between forums

Moderated Categories and Forums

Administrators may allow new messages be posted only after the approval of some moderator or administrator

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Permissions and Security

Read-only forums - Forums where is not possible to post new messages, just reading

Reply-only forums - Forums where only reply to existing posts are allowed

Robust security system

Forum moderators can be granted varying levels of control

Advanced HTML filter, for increased security


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Customization and Extensiblity

Easy and fast development for any other data source

Familiar and attractive layout

Highly customized permission control, allowing fine control over access to any forum and category, by group and by user

Easy to support new bbtags via a XML configuration file

Uses the simple and powerful Freemarker templating system which allows unlimited control over layout and theming

Supports individual themes/templates for users

Support for different languages; easy to add new languages

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Users

Member Listing

User defined avatars

User banning

Unlimited users, groups, and groups per user

User profile

User ranks

Language preferences may be set on a per user basis

Remembers last read messages and tracks new posts