LibreSource – Open Source web collaborative development platform

By Abhi

LibreSource is an open source, modular, highly customizable, and versatile collaborative development platform for groupware, community building, e-archiving and Web publishing.

The platform written in Java/J2EE, it’s a modular web server that users can customize online by combining resources and rights: wiki pages, forum, trackers, Synchronizers, Subversion repositories, files, download areas, drop boxes, forms, etc. it uses most of the advanced services provided by the OW2 application server called JOnAS.

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LibreSource is perfect collaborative development platform for the developer or designer who doesn’t want to learn lots of technical jargon and wants to focus more on communication with the project’s members.

Features of LibreSource

Modular and extensible collaborative platform based on resources
multi-users multi-teams multi-projects multi-purposes platform
Inline Administration : content edited directly in the page
hierarchical flexible resource structure
Configuration management
Accurate access rights management
easy navigation on the platform
expendable, multi-levels site map
full text search, wildcard char support by Lucene
integrates a Jabber instant messaging in order to know who is online and to directly exchange messages.
user notification via email, Jabber, RSS
HTTPS encryption of the pages
Create, Read, Update and Delete rights
import/export in XML of any subset of the hierarchical resource structure
UTF8 support for international content
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)
Wiki editable description and web pages
Easy to create, update, move or delete any resource