A testing site is up and running at http://forum.hkjug.org/forum/. Whoever see this post may go to register an account and try. I'll clear all user accounts and other data before the production launch, so please feel free to try in whatever way you like. The production link will be http://hkjug.org/forum (it doesn't work as of now)
There will be a newsgroup at nntp://news.hkjug.org (also not working yet). The NNTP is shown as started in the Jive Forums console but it doesn't listen to the 119 port at all. Probably I need to go for support.
The Jive Forums is suppose to be quite easy to setup and it should be quite mature. However, you may find some odd behavior or even exception in the user account registration, login/logout, update profile pages. The reason is Jive Forums does not fully support LDAP by default. For example, it can't register new account to LDAP. As a result, I have to program the user and group interface, my implementation possibly introduced some bugs.
In details, I have to implement my own GroupManager, UserManager, and Authentication Factory of Jive Forums to talk to my Apache Directory Server. The forum software has special requirement like it needs both a numeric and String user Id, and it got special profile fields like isEmailVisible for storing in the directory. So I have to customize the LDAP schema in order for Jive Forums to be fully functional.
Some of the potential exception page you may see is related to Spring. My LDAP code uses Spring LDAP template. Spring LDAP template, similar to JDBC Template/DAO, has an "elegant" design that it catches all exception and throw its own RuntimeException. It's really easy to develop and the code are clean as I don't need to catch exceptions. They are really genius. If the users do not enter wrong password and any lookup are always successful, there won't be any exception and it's a decent solution. But ... ....
Another major piece of work, which is not done yet, is the interface customization.
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when will actual launch?
I am getting timeouts from the above URLs. Maybe you are still tweaking?
>when will actual launch?
no schedule. it will launch when it is ready to launch. I wish it to be ready asap. if there are more people willing to help, e.g. to test and give comment, the launching date could be sooner.
>I am getting timeouts from the above URLs. Maybe you are still tweaking?
me too. the app server and app is up and running all the time but the network seems to be unstable. what's odd is when I have started pinging the fw and the router, the connection is very stable. I'll set a network monitoring and keep investigating. As of the time of this post, the site should be accessible without problem
I think the forum should be launch as soon as possible because this is the best way to driven the hong kong java community.
comment on forum:
when I am in the thread, I need to click two time to back to main forum, can I have the shorten path?
>when I am in the thread, I need to click two time to back to main forum, can I have the shorten path?
Under the header "community forums", there is a breadcrumb trails (navigation/location links).
or do you mean you are in a thread of a forum other than General, and you want to have a link to get back to the General forum? You could add a bookmark at your browser!
The sites will be down on Aug 29 (Sat) afternoon. The forum software looks ok (not perfect, but at least most things are functional). I'll see if I could customize the header to put our HKJUG logo on, and then launch the site officially.
The news server is also up and running. it should be accessible at news://news.hkjug.org . For UTF-8 html message, it's ok. Big5 has some problem, but I expect people to turn to use the web forum so it's just for legacy support.
any update in this few days?
sorry for the late reply. I've posted the hkjug.org/forum link to our 3home forum for public review.
The site has so many monster code which is big5/ascii nntp post subjects but I can't find a way to get rid of them.
why you feel it is important to port the post from nntp?
I think you should launch the forum and promote it in Hong Kong, let it become the main java community forum in hk
如果你唔想愈來愈多怪獸字, 其實應該叫人地用呢個 forum, 咁 d font 一定啱 code
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