Dear HiveMind users,
I am glad to announce the release of HiveBoard 0.4.0, a shared online
whiteboard system based on HiveMind 1.1.1 and HiveMind Utilities.
It can be seen as a real-life application of HiveMind with HiveMind
Utilities.
The original announcement on SourceForge follows.
Cheers
Jean-Francois
Announcement on SourceForge:
HiveBoard 0.4.0 released!
After a long period of work on the project, we are proud to announce the
fourth release of the "HiveBoard" application on SourceForge.
In addition to several bugs fixes, the main improvements of release 0.4.0
are:
- Added support for HSQLDB and Derby database engines
- Jetty support upgraded to Jetty 6.0+
- New drawing tool to insert an image in the board area. Many kinds of image
are supported, insertion can be scaled to fit in a user-specified area,
transparency can be set
- New highlight tool to point to some whiteboard parts. Color and size are
configurable on each client application (in preferences dialog)
But the major enhancement of this release is the new "stand alone server"
distribution that eases and quickens HiveBoard server installation. Its
installation does not require anything but a JVM installed on the server: no
need to install any sevlet container, database engine whatsoever, with this
new embedded package, you can install and configure an HiveBoard server in
just about 5 minutes!
For people who still prefer to deploy on their own servlet container with
their own database engine, this is still possible of course.
It is worth to be mentioned that HiveBoard 0.4.0 now has an important set of
automatic tests that cover 93% of its code (client and server altogether)
which will increase confidence of quality of every future delivery.
HiveBoard 0.4.0 will be the last version to support Java 1.4; starting with
0.5.0, only Java 5 will be supported.
The HiveBoard project aims to build a distributed shared whiteboard system,
particularly useful for meetings between remote teams (eg: in offshore
development). It is 100% built in Java, based on a client/server
architecture. Version 0.4.0 has the following highlights:
- Server running on Jakarta Tomcat 5 or Jetty 6, and using PostgreSQL 8.0,
MySQL 4.1, HSQLDB 1.8 or Derby database engines; a "stand-alone" server also
exists that embeds the HiveBoard application within Jetty 6 and Derby
database engine
- Communication transport based on http (ensures usability through
firewalls)
- Secure access to authorized persons only
- Storage of whiteboards in DB (to allow meetings to be interrupted and
resumed later)
- Rich graphical client application, easy to setup and use, running on Java
JRE 1.4 or later, allowing free docking of views inside the main window
(according to the user wishes)
- Account administration available in the rich client application
- Several graphical tools available: free-hand pen, eraser, oval, rectangle,
text. Color, line thickness, font type and size can be changed
- Full-screen capability
Technical highlights:
- Server is Servlet 2.3 compliant and is based upon the following
techniques:
- "Inversion of Control" (HiveMind container)
- iBATIS SqlMaps for "low-level" database access
- Caucho Hessian protocol for remote communications over http
- HiveTranse for high-level transaction management and
HiveMind-iBATIS integration
- HiveLock security framework for HiveMind
- HiveRemoting for Hessian-HiveMind integration
- HiveEvents for server internal events notification
- Client uses the following techniques/libraries:
- Swing for all graphical aspects
- HiveMind
- HiveRemoting for remote access to the server
- HiveEvents for client internal events notification
- HiveGUI for all GUI management (menus, docking, commands,
dialogs...)
HiveBoard web site: http://hiveboard.sourceforge.net
The HiveBoard team
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