Monday 6 December 2010

jchannel - a Java imageboard

I love the chans, so I though I'd build my own. jchannel is simple, linearly-directed, forced anonymous imageboard, implemented using enterprise Java, EJB 3.1, JPA/EclipseLink, with a Google Web Toolkit front end, designed to run on GlassFish application server.

Features

  • GWT AJAX powered front end
  • JPA RDBMS agnostic back end
  • Rich text editor message input
  • Role based administration & moderation
  • Catgegory/Topic administration
  • Post reporting & IP ban management

Screen Shots

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Auto generated contents home page

Thread view with rich text editor input

Topic administration view

Demo

A demo of jchannel with just one topic (/b/) is running at http://jchannel.org

Source Code

The latest source code can be downloaded from Google Code using svn:

svn checkout http://jchannel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ jchannel-read-only

or downloaded here:

Usage

Run the project with 'mvn clean install embedded-glassfish:run' and point your brower at http://127.0.0.1:8080/jchannel/.

Running the project with all the tests will create an embedded Derby database to test against, run an embedded GlassFish server, create some default topics and a default admin user.

To log into the admin interface go to http://127.0.0.1:8080/jchannel/#login

and use the login credentials:

username: admin
password: adminadmin

Update 8/12/10

The http://jchannel.org demo now has a bunch of 4chan style topics.