Open Source Java Message Board Software

Pebble is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool. It's small, fast and feature-rich with unrivalled ease of installation and use. Blog content is stored as XML files on disk and served up dynamically, so there's no need to install a database

MGB is a free OpenSource Guestbook completely written in PHP, using JavaScript and a MySQL Database. Easy to use, flexible and customizable with templates to make it fit 100% to your homepage.

mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com

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 an MVC framework , it can be deployed on any Servlet 3.1 container or application server running at least Java 8, such as Tomcat, Jetty and JBoss/WildFly. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend. There is extensive documentation of all aspects of the software at https://sourceforge.net/p/jforum2/wiki2/Home/ Source code and a beta build are available for running JForum on JakartaEE 10 environments such as Tomcat 10.1; it requires Java 11. This has not been tested as extensively, but does not have any known bugs. It is freely available under the BSD license, and has recently been awarded the SourceForge "Community Choice" badge.

This web service developped in Java provides WebForum services on the IMAP4/POP3 protocol : you don't need database, and common messaging tool like Netscape Messenger or Outlook permits to create/delete new forum and to moderate messages.

A portable, enterprise-ready forums discussion software with a modular authentication system, including LDAP centralized authentication support

A complete web platform, designed for high end cluster server production systems, while allowing massive extensibility.

NukeChat is a module designed for PHPnuke 6.0, but it should work upon previous releases such as the 5.6 or 5.5 and next. The core is a Java Applet : the Chat that works with JVM 1.1 through JVM 1.4.

R-Net is a project and is an initiative. R-Net as a project involves the development of a database which will allow the exchange of ideas and boost peer to peer collaboration to improve the city living standards; the recruiting, organization and mobiliza

The Internet Censor is a multi-platform, Internet clustering program, for which the resulting data will be used in the creation of a non-profit content-filtering Internet Search Engine for children.

VeniVidiVoti or VoteVoteVote. Motor of a library where a group of persons can democratically write any sort of text: book, poem, constitution, newspaper... New political system combining the characteristics of participative and representative democra

Webforum is a Java web forums program. Makes a fast bulletin board with i18n, admin and moderation. Compiled with java 1.6. No relational database (JDBC) needed; msg.s are simple files. Email users via their login.

inicrond is a education-oriented content management system. It is written in php and supports MySQL. Go on the freshmeat site for more details. Inicrond : Network of Interactive Courses Registred On a Net Domain

jboard is a bulletin board project written in java. it relies on struts, jaas, tiles,hibernate, jstl, log4j, xhtml and css2. it has been build to enhance some knowledge on these libraries. this project was a prototype, and is no longer supported.

A discussion forum using JAVA J2EE technologies. some Features:i18n Back-Office , users/groups/permissions management., Forum PRE AND POST Moderation , Content filters, integrated Search engine, Multi-databases support...