JForum

JForum is a forum/message board web application developed in Java EE
Users can create an account, sign in and manage their own profile with JForum,
add and message their friends, as well as view, create and reply to threads

Features

View threads

Create threads

View categories

Account Registration

User sign-in

Display profiles

Add/Remove Friends

Change account settings

Getting Started

Prerequisites

JDK 1.8+
NetBeans 8.1 + EE
Glassfish 4.1
MySQL 5.7
MySQL Connector/J
Hibernate 4

Installation

For a comprehensive installation guide see the InstallGuide

Clone the jforum repository

git clone https://github.com/kyleruss/jforum.git

Import the project in NetBeans
Select the repository directory to open it as an enterprise application
There should be two components: jforum-ejb and jforum-war
Create the jforum database
First connect to MySQL, create the database then exit

mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE jforum;
exit

Import the jforum database tables using the migration script
The migration.sql script can be found in the install directory

mysql -u root -p jforum < migration.sql

Add the provided domain.xml to your Glassfish configs
Copy install/domain.xml into <Glassfish Directory>/glassfish/domains/<your domain>/config/
Set the database username and password properties in your JDBC resource Start your Glassfish server and go to your admin controls (typically localhost:31318)
Select JDBC -> JDBC Resources -> jdbc/mysql and add the username and password properties
where the values correspond to your MySQL database username and password
Deploy the application
Start the Glassfish server and then right click the jforum enterprise application and select deploy

License

JForum is available under the MIT License
See LICENSE for more details