Technical specifications One of Collaba's strenght is its full integration of all the features you need to host a powerful and flexible collaboration and communication server. Too many software packages on the market boast a ton of features, only to let you discover soon enough that you need to install, learn, configure and maintain other software packages that are not included, and that can even sometimes carry their own price tag. Collaba on the other hand packs all of its features into a single self-contained Java server application. You will never need to install a separate web, mail or database server to support Collaba; everything is built-in and ready to go!
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E-mail
Personal mailbox
- Mail folders (for sorting and archiving mail)
- Attachments
- Transfer-less attachments from server
- Auto-zip attachments
- Stylized text (HTML WYSIWYG editor)
- Mail rules (filters)
- Auto-forward to any e-mail address
- Signatures (multiples)
- Message templates
- Qualified Dublin Core metadata
- Search tool
- Unread message indicator (red flag)
- Mail history (sent, read, etc.)
- Quoting of original messages
- Visual indicators for unread, sensitive messages
- Discussion chaining (threads)
- Spell checker
- Recovery of deleted messages
Security
- Secure POP3-SSL access
- Secure SMTP-SSL access
- Anti-spam (regex by content and subject)
- Anti-spam (by multi-RBL)
- Anti-virus (by file name)
- Anti-virus scanning service compatibility (ClamAV and others)
- Strong encryption
- To protect kids, can detach personal name from e-mail address on messages going toward the Internet
External access
- POP3 access
- POP3-SSL access
- SMTP-AUTH access
- SMTP-AIP access
- SMTP-2390 access
- SMTP-SSL access
- Export messages to mbox file
- Export individual messages to MIME
Short Messages
Forums
Discussion forums
- Thread-centric environment
- Public, private or limited access
- Flexible permissions control
- Visual appearance customizable
- Security (strict access control)
- Qualified Dublin Core metadata
- Language-attachable forums
Content access
- RSS 2.0 publishing
- Podcasting
- NNTP client access
- Off-site participation
- Subscribe to threads
- Site-to-site sharing of forums
- «Listserv» mode
- Export forum to mbox file
Blogs
Blogs
- Blog per user
- Blog per group
- Automatic month&year-based archiving
- Comments
- Categories
- Article approval
- Search engine
Content access
- RSS 2.0 blog feed
- Podcasting
- Permalinks for all articles
- Article approval feature for kids blogs
Multimedia
- Media attachments displayed in-line
- Support for YouTube videos, GoogleMaps, etc.
Calendaring
Calendaring
- Personal calendar
- Group calendars
- Layered display of calendars
- Customizable distinctive colors
- Daily events summary
- Calendars organizer
- Multiple personal calendars
- Calendars for resources, locations, etc.
- Attach files to events
- Creation and modification records
Interaction with other users
- Conflicts finder
- E-mail-based invitations & tracking
- User-to-event-location itinerary with Google Maps
- E-mail notification of new group events
Content access
- Synchronize calendars over WebDAV
- Import / Export calendars in iCalendar format
- Sharing calendars with specific users or groups
- Support for Mozilla Sunbird, Mozilla Thunderbird+Lightning, and many more
Files & documents
Files & documents
- Personal home folder can be stored in Collaba
- Group folders can be stored in Collaba
- Access to home and/or group folders on other WebDAV servers
- Access to home and/or group folders on other SMB/CIFS/Windows servers (Win., Linux, etc.)
- Access to home and/or group folders on other FTP servers
- Access to home and/or group folders on other MacOS X Servers
- Access to personal files from home
Virtual File System (VFS)
- VFS accessible over the Web
- VFS accessible over FTP
- VFS accessible over WebDAV
- VFS can transparently integrate WebDAV, SMB, FTP and other external servers
- LDAP-driven auto-configuring VFS
- Disk quotas
- Qualified Dublin Core metadata
- Server-side anti-virus service API
- Clustering support (Collaba DSN)
Workflow
- User-level scripting environment to create automated workflows
- Built-in project workflow system
- Automatic per-group special folders
- Versioning (files and directories)
- WebDAV quick-access
Office suite
- Compatible with Zoho, an on-line office suite
- Support for editing Word, Excel and other office documents
- Ability to create new office documents
Content handling
- Copy-paste of files and directories
- Auto-zip/unzip when uploader/downloading folders
- Rich HTML and text editor
- Multimedia file viewer (QuickTime-powered)
- Spreadsheet and text processing documents (see Zoho feature)
Web server
Web content serving
- Personal web space to host your web and multimedia pages
- Secure intranet-only section
- Public web sites serving
- Multiple domain name support
- Support for includes and other features
Content editing
- WYSIWYG web page editor
- Assistant for creating pages through forms
Bookmarks
Bookmarks
- Personal collection of web bookmarks
- Group collections of web bookmarks
- Organization of bookmarks into categories
- Automatic lookup of page title
- Date/time-based access constraints
- del.icio.us social bookmark lookup
- In-line viewing of RSS feeds
Single-Sign-On (SSO) support
- Powerful SSO features (CSE API)
- Support for Java extensions to add SSO services
- Ability to interact with users during the process of leading them to bookmarked sites
News board
News
- Dynamic news depending on groups the user is a member of (school news, class news, etc.)
- RSS 2.0 publishing
Digital portfolio
Built-in digital presentation portfolio
- Simple document management
- Comments and annotations
- Access for teacher
- Access for peers
- Access possible for parents
- Sharing of documents, folders or portfolio
- Detailed on-line help
- Supports many files per document
- Folders for organizing documents
- Linkup with school file servers
- Customizable document templates
- Export portfolio in autonomous format
- Portal-to-portal portfolio transfer
Connection with other portfolio products
- Compatibility with Concordia University's ePEARL
- Other portfolio products can be plugged-in
Expansion / Single-Sign-On
Expansion / Single-Sign-On
- Personal keychain
- Group keychains
- Dynamic LDAP-aware keys
- Collaba Service Expansion (CSE) API
- Support for Java extensions to add SSO services
- Collaba External Integration (CEI) API
- Collaba Authentication API
- Authentication methods included: Collaba, LDAP, CAS, JAAS, SMTP-Auth, POP3-Auth, HTTP-Auth
- Built-in CAS Server
Visual environment
Visual environment
- Modular XHTML + CSS interface
- Multilingual (English & French built-in)
- Visual appareance customizable
- Intuitive interface, tested with students
- On-line help manual
- Contextual help
- Help system content editor
- Platform-wide search tool
- Site Map
- Issue report system
- Choice of introduction pages
Efficiency / performance
- Acceleration client
- Fast and optimized navigation
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Collaba Client Engine (CCE)
Security
- Web portal accessible over SSL
Server management
Platform management
- Centralized or decentralized management
- Decentralizable with precision
- Advanced security management
- Flexible and precise control or rights
- Support for schedule-oriented privileges
- All-on-line configuration
- Numerous quick intervention strategies
- Self-subscription groups
- Isolated sub-communities
- Disk quotas for users
- User self-registration system
- Digital garbage collector
- Service broadcasting with Bonjour
Massive management
- Large-scale management tools
- Scriptable administrative tasks (schedulable)
- Dynamic linkup to LDAP servers
- Automatic creation of user accounts from LDAP
- Automatic creation of user groups from LDAP
- Synchronization of profiles and permissions from LDAP
- Authentication against LDAP, CAS, JAAS, SMTP-Auth, or POP3 servers (SSO), or locally in Collaba
- Bandwidth control built into the HTTP server
Auditing / tracking / monitoring
- Activity logs (with auto-zip download and search engine)
- Usage statistics
- Compatible with XiTi
- Remote server monitoring
Content input / output
- Content sharing Collaba-to-Collaba
- Import users from other systems
- Import groups from other systems
- Import forums and content from other systems
- Import personal mailbox content from other systems
- Progressive migration strategies from MS Exchange, FirstClass, and more...
- Mail transfer from POP3 servers
Server limits
Resources (approx., depends on hardware and other factors)
- Maximum number of users: 2,000,000 approx.
- Maximum number of forums: 2,000,000 approx.
- Maximum number of groups: 2,000,000 approx.
- Maximum mail domains: 5,000 approx.
- Maximum web domains: 5,000 approx.
Server computer
- Maximum concurrent users: depends on hardware and network configuration
- Maximum CPU processors: 8
Massive Deployment Site (CMDS)
- Massive deployment system allowing a Collaba platform to be spread accross multiple servers
Server compatibility
Server compatibility
- on Linux (any recent distribution)
- on MacOS X or MacOS X Server (Intel or PowerPC)
- on Windows XP, 2000, 2003, Vista...
- on Solaris
- on any other Java SE 5.0 or 6.0 compatible operating system...
Developers
Developers
- Collaba Service Expansion API (Java)
- Collaba Authentication API (Java)
- Collaba Client Engine (Java)
- Collaba Persistence API (Java)
- Collaba Anti-Virus Service API (Java)
- Collaba VFS source (VFSCL)
- Collaba VFS scripts (VFSSL)
- Collaba VFS script extensions (Java)
- Collaba Whiteboard Toolkits (bundle)
- Collaba Visual Interface Decoration API (XML)
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