Talk:OpenACS

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenACS

The Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS) is an open-source web application framework licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

The Open Architecture Community System provides:

• A set of applications, that can be used to deploy web sites that are strong on collaboration. Some of the applications are *Workflow, CMS, Messaging, Bug/Issue tracker, e-commerce, blogger, chat and forums.
• A sophisticated application development toolkit, that provides an extensive set of APIs and services to enable quick development of new applications. Features include
  • sophisticated permissioning,
  • full internationalization,
  • Ajax,
  • form builder,
  • object model,
  • automated testing,
  • subsites and
  • a powerful package manager.

OpenACS runs on AOLserver with either Oracle or PostgreSQL as its database.

Projects that are based on OpenACS include dotLrn, dotFolio, dotCommunity, dotConsult, and Project-Open.