Good morning, Concerning the forum application, we have already developed one, you can find it at www.editnews.com. It is running under Orion and was completely designed using the J2EE technology using XML for user interface... let me know if people are interested. regards, Hans Bakker A-Net Internet Services bv http://www.a-net.nl/english > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens The elephantwalker > Verzonden: zaterdag 25 augustus 2001 0:59 > Aan: Orion-Interest > Onderwerp: RE: I think, I will start a support site too.... > > > Simon, > > We're trying to develop a better mousetrap here ;). Also, I think a good > forum application, news application, and portal app would go along way for > more companies using orion. We are starting with the forum > application, and > will expand later. > > One of the reasons companies purchase weblogic is it comes with > all of these > apps that can be used right out of the box. If we can provide the > same thing > for orion at a lower price point, then more companies will use this > technology. > > This is why we developed the forum application. We tried Jives and > OSContent...Jives was missing key features like attachments and > distributibility (can't be load-balanced), and OSContent was just > too young > (they are working on it, though). > > Regards, > > the elephantwalker > > .ps somehow my posts are doubling up on the latest orion-interest > server...can't figure that... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Evans > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 3:19 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: I think, I will start a support site too.... > > > i wish there was a news server, that automatically gives you all the > features you are talking about. this is how the support for weblogic is > done. > also you dont have to develop anything, all it needs is a host > computer and > install it. > > The elephantwalker wrote: > > Group, > > In order to battle the big boys, Orion needs us all. This is why I started > my support site. Although this is a commercial venture, our goal is to > provide a support community for Orion. If you take a look at the > submissions > on the Oracle container support list, you can see that even Oracle needs > some help in understanding some bits of Orion. > > For those of you who have already signed up at the site, thanks. I thought > about just providing a maillist server, but felt that what we > really needed > was some type of forum application. Several of you have made suggestions > about improving the site, and we are making these changes: > > 1. automatic logins. > 2. wider input forms for the messages. > 3. a message thread view as well as the default forum view. > 4. next and previous message buttons. > 5. message filters so that html tags in the message are not necessary. > 6. search engine for the messages and the site. > > We are also adding a news application so that members can > directly add news > to the site. The up-coming tips and hints page will include the steps that > were taken to build the forum application, including: > > 1. breaking the 4k barrier for clobs and lobs in Oracle. > 2. distributing the application so that session clustering works. > 3. encrypted user security. > > Regards, > > the elephantwalker > > >
