Dear all: Chat Jircs now open source.
In recent months, we've seen several open source releases of MMBase-related functionality. For example a webshop, mailform, email application, linkchecker, and other packages. At this moment several other people and organizations are working on the open source release of a project tool, an MMBase-interface to the widely used authentication tool (www.a-select.org), a forum application, an e-learning environment, etc. In time they can all be found on this site (see: download -> packages). And today, June 29 in the year 2004, we announce with great pleasure, that the Java IRC Server (Jircs), developed under supervision of the Dutch public broadcasting organization EO by Jaco de Groot and Jelle Katsman has been made open source. In the summer of 2002 the EO was looking for a chat server that could communicate with Flash (Macromedia) and their content management system MMBase (www.mmbase.org). The technical team decided not to invent a new chat protocol, but to create a chat server in Java, based on the IRC protocol. There are two interfaces available to configure Jircs as a normal IRC server and as a chat server that communicates with flash clients (developed by Jelle Katsman) and checks with MMBase for users and channels; so people logged in to the website are automatically logged in to the IRC server. Your own design can easily be integrated with the flash client. In several audio's with Fokke Kooistra (CTO of the EO) and also with the MMBase Foundation, everyone involved came to the conclusion that an open source release of this chat would be greatly appreciated by the MMBase community. And hopefully many others! Because Jircs can also be used independent from MMBase, as you can create your own repository. Jircs has been proven stable and has many advanced features. In the coming period Jircs will be maintained by Jaco de Groot (www.dynasol.nl) and Jelle Katsman (flash client), with support from the MMBase Foundation. In the near future Jircs can be found on Jircs.org. The release is now available on: http://www.dynasol.nl/jircs/ The zip-files also contain all documentation necessary. In the past few months Jaco de Groot and Jelle Katsman worked very hard to make this release possible. Putting sources on a website is one thing. Writing adequate documentation regarding requirements, installation and functionality another. We therefore all owe many thanks to: Jaco de Groot, http://www.dynasol.nl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maintainer irc server) Jelle Katsman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maintainer flash client) Fokke Kooistra, http://www.eo.nl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). (Flash is a registered trademark from Macromedia.) June 28, MMBase Foundation. MMBase Foundation E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: +31 (0)35 6288088 M: +31 (0)6 53292887
