 The OpenACS logo The Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS) is an advanced open-source toolkit for developing community web applications licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. OpenACS mascot Alex This work is copyrighted. ...
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In software engineering, a web application is an application delivered to users from a web server over a network such as the World Wide Web or an intranet. ...
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The Open Architecture Community System provides:
- A large set of applications, that can be used to deploy web sites that are strong on collaboration. Some of the powerful applications are Workflow, CMS, Messaging, Bug/Issue tracker, e-commerce, blogger, chat and forums. OpenACS has dozens more applications.
- A sophisticated application development toolkit, that provides a extensive set of APIs and services to enable quick development of new applications.
OpenACS runs on AOLserver with either Oracle or PostgreSQL as its database. In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of documents and other content. ...
Electronic commerce or e-commerce consists of the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of products or services over computer networks. ...
Blogger is a service created by Pyra Labs that provides Web-based tools used by individuals to publish to the Web. ...
A chat is a casual conversation. ...
AOLserver is America Onlines open source web server. ...
An Oracle database, strictly speaking, consists of a collection of data managed by an Oracle database management system or DBMS. The term Oracle database sometimes refers - imprecisely - to the DBMS software itself. ...
PostgreSQL is a free object-relational database server (database management system), released under a flexible BSD-style license. ...
Side note: OpenACS was originally developed side-by-side with the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), a product of ArsDigita Corporation. ACS remains one of the more famous products to be based completely on the AOLserver. In 2002, after the ACS code tree forked, the Tcl code base came to be maintained by the OpenACS project. The ArsDigita Community System (ACS) is an advanced Open Source toolkit for developing community web applications developed primarily by developers associated with ArsDigita Corporation. ...
ArsDigita was a web development company founded by Philip Greenspun which started in Boston, Massachusetts in the mid-1990s, produced a popular toolkit (the ACS) for building database_backed community websites, and flourished at the peak of the Internet bubble. ...
Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced like tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout that is generally thought to be easy to learn, but powerful in competent hands. ...
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A content management system (or CMS) is a system used to organise and facilitate collaborative digital content creation. ...
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