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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). Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE (formerly also J2EE) is a programming platform — part of the Java platform — for developing and running distributed multi-tier architecture applications, based largely on modular components running on an application server. ... This article is about Velocity as template engine. ... Jakarta (also Djakarta or DKI Jakarta), formerly known as Sunda Kelapa, Jayakarta and Batavia is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. ... Apache Software Foundation Logo The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)(3) in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. ... Apache HTTP Server is a free software/open source web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other operating systems. ... Apache Tomcat is a web container developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). ...

Other open-source components used include:

• OpenSympony WebWork
• OpenSympony SiteMesh
• Hibernate
• Lucene

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. Hibernate is an object-relational mapping (ORM) solution for the Java language. ... Lucene is a free open source, information retrieval API originally implemented in Java by Doug Cutting. ...

See also

• Comparison of wiki software
• List of wiki software

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External links

• Confluence licensing and pricing
• Download Confluence from Atlassian home page