Open Source Java Conferencing Software

BigBlueButton is an open-source virtual classroom platform built to help teachers teach and learners learn online. It enables real-time collaboration through audio, video, slide presentations, screen sharing, and interactive whiteboards. Educators can actively engage students using polls, emojis, shared notes, multi-user whiteboards, and breakout rooms. The platform includes a Learning Analytics Dashboard that provides moderators with live insights into participant activity and engagement. BigBlueButton also supports session recording and playback, making it ideal for asynchronous learning and content reuse. Designed primarily for education, it adapts seamlessly to online tutoring, flipped classrooms, group collaboration, and large-scale virtual classes.

SSVNC adds encryption security to VNC. It provides a GUI for Windows, MacOSX, and Unix that automatically starts up an SSL or SSH tunnel for connections to any VNC server. It also supports VeNCrypt encryption. The Unix viewer has many new features.

PeterHi is an initiative to provide a set of tools for education based on your existing IT infrastructure.

GUJ is a virtual user group from Brazil. We are one of the most influent and active group in the community. GUJ was stared at August 2002. Having 40000+ users, who every day discuss about Java, make articles and disseminates Java in the country.

========================= WEBCAMSTUDIO IS NO MORE MAINTAINED ========================= We are looking for someone to take over. If interested please contact: soylent.tv@gmail.com WebcamStudio is a multifeatured virtual webcam software that can be used with Skype or a flash website like UStream, to create a professional looking broadcast, including banners, animations, transit animations and icons, etc... This tool is not meant as a video editor but as a live video mixer giving you the possibilities to change the look of the broadcast on the fly. For more info about the WebcamStudio project, please visit our Wiki Home page: https://sourceforge.net/p/webcamstudio/wiki/Home/ IMPORTANT: ======= The former homepages of the project: http://code.google.com/p/webcamstudio http://ws4gl.org should be considered only as a reference to old project news, forums, info etc. Have in mind that some of these old links may not work anymore.

Application sharing software that allows individual windows to be replicated to other computers. Remote collaboration tool based on a modified VNC protocol. Its advantage is to keep some things, like email, private, while sharing other desktop apps.

Simple and powerful chat client/server system for your web pages. Support channel administration, irc-like commands, connections filtering, extensive logging and much more. Works in any Java compliant web browser.

Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation enterprise messaging and collaboration. Please see www.zimbra.com for the latest news and downloads.

Dimdim is an open source web meeting product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No attendee installation - all features are available through a web browser. Dimdim can be integrated with Moodle.

Echomine Muse provides an easy-to-use Java API that gives you quick and easy access to network collaboration services. Specifically, it allows you to communicate with Jabber/XMPP servers to perform instant messaging and presence management.

TIPcon1 is a standards-compliant soft phone using text, voice and video with accessibility features.

Flazr is a Java implementation of protocols such as RTMP used for multimedia streaming. The Flazr project includes a streaming media server and related utilities.

The Collaborative Virtual Workspace is a software environment that provides a "virtual building" where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location. For documentation, see the "Home Page" link above.

GOIM is a Jabber client with special features targeted at gamers. It is based on the eclipse rcp and will include all major jabber features in addition to displaying who in the roster is playing which game on which server and other game related features.

JForum is a complete, powerful and multi-threaded forum software. Features include unlimited forums and categories, topic watching, email notification, Private Messages, user ranking, advanced permission schema and moderation options and much more.

ele (enCore Learning Environment) is a moo- and web-based environment (server, db, GUI) designed for educational purposes. It aids and promotes online learning and community building through open standards and ease of use. http://encore-consortium.org/

A Jabber client for synchronous group discussion, argumentation and conferencing with an interface supporting higher-order thinking. A flexible and configurable tool that can be adapted to particular contexts and problems in education.

Simple, small, secure web conferencing on any platform that supports Java.

Lucane is a free groupware platform written in Java, designed with extensibilty in mind. Bundled apps are instant messaging, file sharing, chat, forum, personnal notes, shared calendar,audioconf, whiteboard, todolist ... The platform is a simple way t

Brainlink is a collaborative text editor that utilitizes IP multicasting, written in Java. Brainlink is a port of the Network Text Editor (a research project created at University College London), developed at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

ConneX is a pure p2p collaboration platform based on JXTA technologie. its provides Real-Time collaboration tools in form of Plug-ins (instant messaging, file sharing, chat, whiteboard, slide show)100% Java.

RTP text/t140 Library is a reference implementation for RTP Payload Type for Text Conversation (RFC 4103). The library has source code for encoding and decoding RFC 4103 data, and may be used either as a plug-in to JMF or in a separate RTP sender/receive

Bazaar is a multifunction system that does Web Conferencing, IRC chat, link management, and sgml publication (for the ICAAP system). Bazaar uses MySQL at the back end and features customizable interfaces, API, multiple languages and a host of other f

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Free Instant Mesagging and Chat client / server