Atlassian Confluence
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| Confluence | |
| Image:Atlassian confluence.png Atlassian Confluence |
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| Developer: | Atlassian |
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| Latest release: | 2.3 / January 08, 2007 |
| OS: | Cross-platform |
| Use: | Knowledge management |
| License: | Proprietary |
| Website: | www.atlassian.com |
Confluence is a commercial Java EE based knowledge management and collaboration tool produced by Atlassian Software Systems. It is a wiki, and can be used as a bliki.
Confluence is free for philanthropic and open-source projects. Academic and commercial organizations are charged based on number of users.
Some other nice features of Confluence are that it is extensible, and the source code is made available to purchasers. Confluence uses Java EE for the server side and has the ability to connect to virtually any SQL database, utilizing the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver. Formatting of the XHTML front end is done with another open-source software project, Velocity. Velocity is part of the Jakarta project (which was founded by the Apache Software Foundation, most famous for the Apache Web server and the Tomcat Application Server).
Other open-source components used include:
Confluence also includes a plugin system with a variety of extension points ranging from theming capabilities and wiki macros to custom webwork actions, search extractors and event handlers. This makes Confluence a strong platform for rapid development and modification.
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