OpenACS 5-2 Core and compatibile packages

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Package Status Description
Site-Wide Administration 3: Mature and Standard
An interface for Site-wide administration of an OpenACS Installation.
Provides a UI for administering site-wide services (including package installation, cache, authentication, and user accounts) for an OpenACS system.
acs-admin 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
API Browser 3: Mature and Standard
Interactive documentation for the Tcl and SQL APIs.
On line interactive documentation for the locally installed Tcl and SQL APIs. Links to the Tcl core and AOLServer online documentation as well.
acs-api-browser 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Authentication 3: Mature and Standard
Authentication, account management, and related functionality.
Implements authentication-related security functions for OpenACS, including password, account and session management, bulk account creation etc. Provides a contract based interface for different authentication methods such as PAM or LDAP based authentication.
acs-authentication 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by Collaboraid
Automated Testing 3: Mature and Standard
The interface to the automated testing facilities within OpenACS.
Provides a UI for viewing and running automated tests provided by each package within the OpenACS system. Also provides a UI for managing automatic-rebuild servers as in a test farm.
acs-automated-testing 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Bootstrap Installer 3: Mature and Standard
Bootstraps an OpenACS installation.
This package bootstraps OpenACS. If the core packages have not yet been installed, it calls the installer which leads the user through the steps necessary to do so. It also checks that the installation meets the requirements for a successful install of OpenACS.
acs-bootstrap-installer 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Content Repository 3: Mature and Standard
The canonical repository for OpenACS content.
Provides the API for creating and managing user generated content including full support for versioning, rendering content to the filesystem, folders and composite content items, and other CMS backing functionality. Utilized by Bug Tracker, File Storage, and other packages.
acs-content-repository 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Documentation 3: Mature and Standard
Documentation for the OpenACS Core.
Static HTML documentation for the OpenACS core (includes the DocBook sources).
acs-core-docs 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Date and Time Utilities 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
An API for date and time functions
Note: this version of the package requires acs-event(s) for a helper function. This requirement may go away in the future.
acs-datetime 5.2.2 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Developer Support 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Profiling for requests including database timing information.
Developer support stores timing and other logged information for requests to support debugging and tuning and supports user switching and a Tcl Shell to invoke arbitrary tcl code on the server.
acs-developer-support 5.2.0d1 released 2005-02-04 by OpenACS
ACS Events 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
API support for relationships between intervals in time, activities, and parties.
The events service is primarily intended for use by writers of application packages and other service packages. The service allows developers to specify and manipulate relationships (possibly recurring) between an object and another object.
acs-events 0.5 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Kernel 3: Mature and Standard
Routines and data models providing the foundation for OpenACS-based Web services.
The OpenACS kernel contains the core datamodel create and drop scripts for such things as objects, groups, partiies and the supporting PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL procedures.
acs-kernel 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Localization 3: Mature and Standard
OpenACS Internationalization Support.
Internationalization and localization support routines and admin UI for manipulating Locales, request processor hooks, templating, accessing and managing the message catalog, and locale-specific formatting functions for localizing dates, times, monetary amounts etc.
acs-lang 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by Collaboraid
ACS Mail Lite 3: Mature and Standard
Simplified reliable email transmission with bounce management.
This package provides a simple ns_sendmail-like interface for sending messages, but queues messages in the database to ensure reliable sending and make sending a message 'transactional'. Prefered over acs-messaging or acs-mail.
acs-mail-lite 1.1 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Mail 3: Mature and Standard
General messaging system, mark II
Provides generic message services, with email sending. The acs-mail-lite package is the prefered interface for new packages and it's anticipated that this package will ultimately be deprecated.
acs-mail 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Messaging 3: Mature and Standard
General messaging for bboard and general comments.
Provides generic message services, with email sending. acs-mail-lite and notifications are the prefered packages for delivering this functionality and it is anticipated that this package will ultimately be deprecated.
acs-messaging 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
ACS Reference Data 3: Mature and Standard
Tools and API for managing refrence data.
Reference Data provides an API to support:
  • A common set of reference data.
  • Running standard reports on this data.
  • Monitoring the usage of reference data.

acs-reference 5.2.3 released 2006-01-16 by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
Service Contracts 3: Mature and Standard
API and UI for service contracts
Service contracts defines an API for the creation of interfaces and discovery of interface implementations. Examples are the contracts used for search which provide a means to get content on a given object and to translate an object_id to a url or the contracts used by dotlrn and new-portals to allow packages to provide portalized panes.
acs-service-contract 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Subsite 3: Mature and Standard
Subsite
Provides for creating subsites within the OpenACS Community System. Aware of parties, groups, users, portraits. Can be themed via a per subsite master template.
acs-subsite 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Tcl Library 3: Mature and Standard
The Kernel Tcl API library.
Contains all the core Tcl API, including the request processor, security and session management, permissions, site-nodes, package management infrastructure, etc.
acs-tcl 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Templating 3: Mature and Standard
Templating library.
The templating system provides the tag library and support routines that allow developers and graphic designers to work independently. Templates specify the layout of the page seperately from the contents of the page. Graphic designers work primarily on the layout part of the template (the template), while programmers work primarily a script that generates the the content part of the template (the code). In addition, the template system provides a way to use a single layout specification for many physical pages, so the overall layout of a site can be more easily administered.
acs-templating 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
ACS Translation Storage 3: Mature and Standard
Package for storing dynamic translations
Package for storing dynamic translations
acs-translations 5.2.3 released by
ApplicationTrack Portlet 0:


application-track-portlet 0.1d released 2005-04-13 by E-lane
Application Track 0:
Gives information about the use of applications within communities or classes.
Gives information about the use of applications within communities or classes.
application-track 0.1d released 2005-08-05 by E-Lane Project
Assessment Portlet 0:


assessment-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
Assessment 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Assessment package that will replace the survey, quizz, complex survey, poll and other data collection packages that OpenACS currently supports.
Create assessments and evaluate.
assessment 0.20 released 2005-08-01 by E-LANE
Attachments 0:
Attachment support
Provide widgets and datamodel to support attachments on arbitrary objects. Used by forums.
attachments 0.10 released 2003-11-10 by OpenACS
LDAP Authentication Driver 0:
LDAP authentication drivers for acs-authentication.
Implements the LDAP authentication, password management, and other drivers for use with the acs-authentication service contracts.
auth-ldap 1.1 released by Collaboraid
Bulk Mail Portlet 0:


bm-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Bulk Mail 0:
Mailing form letters to groups of users.
Provides an API for sending messages to a collection of users (which can be chosen via arbitrary sql). Mails can be personalized and can be scheduled for a later date.
bulk-mail 0.5.1d7 released 2003-11-10 by OpenACS
Calendar Portlet 0:


calendar-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Calendar 0:
Personal and shared event calendars.
Manage group and shared calendars with download.
calendar 2.1.0b5 released 2004-03-04 by OpenACS
Categories 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Manage categories in category trees and let users map objects to categories.
Datamodel for category trees with supporting API and management pages. Provides a widget for general categorization of arbitrary objects and tracks which package instances use which category trees. Also supports localization.
categories 1.1 released 2006-02-12 by
Chat Portlet 0:


chat-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Chat 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Server based chat with an html and ajax client.
Adapted by Peter Alberer 2006/03/25 to allow java and ajax to coexist. Adapted by Tekne 2006/03/01 to replace JAVA server with AJAX; make use of generalized chat class from xotcl-core.
chat 5.0d6 released 2006-04-11 by OpenACS
Clipboard 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
General object clipboarding facility
Clipboard is used to clip objects and provides includes for doing bulk actions on the clipped objects (things like relating objects, permissioning, etc).
clipboard 0.1d released by Xarg
Contacts 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
This application lets you collaboratively view, edit and categorize contacts.
Contacts is an application for managing all those people and or organization you need to keep track of. It has a complete UI for storing and categorizing contacts. Each contact can have an arbitrary number of custom attributes associated with it, including other contacts (i.e. a certain contact "belongs" to a certain organization). It also functions as a service contract provider for attributes related to users in your system
contacts 1.2b10 released 2006-03-31 by
dotLRN Admin 0:
.LRN-wide admin pages. Initially created as a singleton with automount at /dotlrn/dotlrn-admin. These can be changed if and when .LRN supports multiple instances.
Contains pages and scripts for configuring .LRN --- managing users, departments, terms, classes and so on.
dotlrn-admin 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
dotLRN ApplicationTrack Management Applet 0:


dotlrn-application-track 0.1d released 2005-04-13 by Elane
dotLRN Assessment Applet 0:


dotlrn-assessment 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
dotLRN Bulk Mail Applet 0:


dotlrn-bm 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Calendar Applet 0:


dotlrn-calendar 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Chat Applet 0:


dotlrn-chat 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Applet 0:
Helper routines for dotLRN applets

dotlrn-dotlrn 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Evaluation Applet 0:


dotlrn-evaluation 2.2.0 released 2004-05-19 by
dotLRN FAQ Applet 0:


dotlrn-faq 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Forums Applet 0:


dotlrn-forums 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN File Storage Applet 0:


dotlrn-fs 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Homework 0:
Provides a homework assignment dropboxes for dotLRN classes.

dotlrn-homework 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by furfly.net, LLC
dotLRN IMS LD Applet 0:


dotlrn-imsld 0.1d released 2005-09-26 by
dotLRN LORS Management Applet 0:


dotlrn-lorsm 2.2.0 released 2004-06-19 by OpenACS
dotLRN News Applet 0:


dotlrn-news 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Photo Album Applet 0:


dotlrn-photo-album 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by Xarg
dotLRN Portlet 0:


dotlrn-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Random Photo 0:


dotlrn-random-photo 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
dotLRN Static Applet 0:


dotlrn-static 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Survey 0:
dotLRN applet for Survey package
dotLRN applet for Survey package
dotlrn-survey 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
dotLRN Syllabus 0:


dotlrn-syllabus 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
dotLRN Weblogger Applet 0:


dotlrn-weblogger 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by Collaboraid
dotLRN 0:
A Course Management System
Course Management
dotlrn 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Dynamic Object Type 2: Mature
Dynamic Object Type management API
Allows creation, manipulation and ui generation of dynamically generated object types.
dynamic-types 0.2d2 released by Xarg
Edit This Page 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
An easy-to-use content management system.
An Easy to use publishing system with versioning and permissions.
edit-this-page 1.8 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Evaluation Portlet 0:


evaluation-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
Evaluation 0:
This package allows the users (professors and students) to use the system to submit and grade the tasks.
This package allows the professors and TAs to assign tasks to the students and to grade them, and to the students to upload their answers and see their grades.
evaluation 2.0.3d2 released 2005-05-23 by
FAQ Portlet 0:


faq-portlet 2.2.0 released 2004-03-10 by OpenACS
FAQ 2: Mature
Manage simple and categorized Question and Answer style FAQs with WYSIWYG and notification functionalities.
Handles frequently asked questions Q&A presentation. Can be one Q&A per page or all presented flat. Straightforward application with room for improvement. Support for notification as well as WYSIQYG Editor and Categories - both optional. Category trees are displayed flat. No multiple filters.
faq 5.2.0d4 released 2004-08-12 by Ybos Corporation
Feed Parser 0:
Parser for various XML-based news feed formats
This package provides a general parser for a variety of XML-based news feed formats, including RSS 0.92/2.0, RSS 1.0 (RDF) and Atom. It supports some of the widely used features of these formats, but not many extensions. Results are returned in a Tcl array-list.
feed-parser 0.3d released 2004-05-30 by Lucmo
File Storage 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Collaborative document storage
Provides a versioned document store with storage in the filesystem or database (depending on configuration). Documents and folders can be permissioned and folders downloaded.
file-storage 5.2.3 released 2005-09-30 by OpenACS
Forums Portlet 0:


forums-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Forums 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Online discussion forums.
This online discussion board software is the successor of the original bboard package. The biggest improvement is a scalable datamodel. Forums supports threaded and flat view, moderation, a stand alone search function as well as integration with the OpenACS search package and integration with the notifications package for email alerts. It also supports reply via email.
forums 1.3d1 released 2006-05-10 by OpenACS
File Storage Portlet 0:


fs-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
General Comments 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Service to provide comment entry and display on objects.
General comments provides the widgets and UI to support commentability on any object. There is also an admin interface to edit/hide/delete comments.
general-comments 5.2.0 released 2006-02-12 by OpenACS
IMS LD Portlet 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown


imsld-portlet 0.2d released 2007-04-12 by
Imsld 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
IMS LD integration with dotLRN.
This package is the implementation of IMS LD in dotLRN. The course admin can create a sequence of activities for the students, as well as decide who does what, when and using what resources.
imsld 1.1d released 2006-10-20 by
Lars Blogger 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Individual or collaborative web logs.
Weblog creation and management with notifications, RSS, trackpack, technorati, blogroll, pings, archives, draft and published entries, includable templates for presenting on other pages, and permissioning for multiple users.
lars-blogger 2.2.0 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
LORS Central 0:
Application to manage the services from the Learning Object Repository.
This application manages the services from the Learning Object Repository: upload master courses, manage and create metadata, add resources and files to existent courses, creates new versions of LO's.
lors-central 0.1a5 released 2005-03-14 by
Learning Object Repository Service 1: Immature
IMS Content Packaging and Medata Services. Implementation of IMS CP and MD for .LRN
This is a service and library to manage IMS Content Packaging and Metadata. From version 0.4d onward it supports SCORM and Blackboard imports
lors 0.6d4 released 2004-08-06 by
LORS Management Portlet 0:


lorsm-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
LORS Management 0:
Application to manage the services from the Learning Object Repository.
This application manages the services from the Learning Object Repository: upload courses, manage and create metadata, delete resources and courses.
lorsm 0.7d released 2005-05-26 by
Mail Tracking 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Mail tracking package. Records all messages send out by acs-mail-lite.
This package provides two ways to track emails sent out by acs-mail-lite: - Simply track all when the TrackAllMails parameter is set. - Admin requests explizitly the tracking for a package instance. See in the documentation for how to do that.
mail-tracking 0.4 released 2005-10-24 by
New Portal 0:
Portals.
New Portal Package aka NPP. Portals are used to aggregate content from different sources within a single page. Props to Ian Baker for "Portal".
new-portal 2.2.0 released 2006-06-25 by OpenACS
News Aggregator 0:
Read news sources on your website.
The news aggregator periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats, finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page.
news-aggregator 1.0.2 released 2006-03-10 by OpenACS
News Portlet 0:


news-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
News 0:
Used for announcements and news items.
News publication tool. Publication of plain text or html news items with support for scheduled publication and commentability.
news 5.2.0d6 released 2003-11-10 by OpenACS
Notifications 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Email notifications management
Provides an API for packages to provide subscription based email notifications and handle replies. Used by forums, bug-tracker, etc. The currently prefered package for email notifications.
notifications 5.2.0 released 2006-02-12 by OpenACS
webDAV Support 0:
Provides services to enable webDAV access to content repository items.
An interface to the tDAV webDAV package. oacs-dav provides services to offer webDAV access to content repository data.
oacs-dav 1.1b1 released 2004-09-27 by OpenACS
Organization 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Implementation of HR-XML organizations datamodel.
Provides the datamodel for an implementation of the HR-XML organizations spec, but no API for manipulating the data. Also note that the Oracle code is out of sync with the Postgres code. The source code has comments in it indicating what needs to be updated to make things work correctly [Jade Rubick].
organizations 0.6d1 released 2005-10-14 by Integrated Bakery Resources
Photo Album Portlet 0:


photo-album-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by Xarg
Photo Album 1: Immature
Organization, editing and display of user uploaded photos.
A photo album application that provides photo display and grouping functionality using the ACS Content Repository.

Allows users to upload photos, store and edit attributes, and group photos into albums and folders. Supports permissioning, exif data, and user clipboards.

Requires installation of ImageMagick and jhead on host machine. See design doc for details.
photo-album 5.2.3 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS

Profile Provider 0:


profile-provider 2.1.2 released 2004-03-10 by OpenACS
Project Manager 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Project management tool for OpenACS
Track tasks, estimates and actual progress for a project. See the project page for more information.
project-manager 3.1d25 released 2005-11-29 by Integrated Bakery Resources
Randon Photo Portlet 0:


random-photo-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
Ratings 1: Immature
Multidimensional ratings on arbitrary acs_objects.
Support for rating objects, with trigger maintained summary data.
ratings 0.1d1 released by Xarg
Reference Data - Timezone 3: Mature and Standard
Timezone data for acs-reference.
This is the timezone data for the acs-reference data package. Used by acs-lang (among others) for localized times.
ref-timezones 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by Mayuli Enterprises, LLC
RSS Support 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Service contracts and support for generating RSS feeds
Basic support for RSS generation and parsing. RDF Site Summary (RSS) is a lightweight multipurpose extensible metadata description and syndication format. This package can be used to publish site content in a manner useful to other websites and webservices.

For each item (news event, ticket, bboard message, ...) that you want to publish, you create a property list that describes that item (url to item, title of item, description of item, etc.). You pass a list of those items (and some other parameters) to rss_gen, and it will generate your XML for you. You can also implenent a set of functions that satisfy the RSS service contracts and the RSS can be recreated from a scheduled procedure.


rss-support 0.3 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Search 3: Mature and Standard
Site wide search
Site wide search implemented with service contracts, currently only supports postgres via the OpenFTS driver.
search 5.2.3 released 2006-05-25 by OpenACS
Static Portlet 0:


static-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by OpenACS
Survey Portlet 0:
Survey package portlet for new-portal
Survey package portlet for new-portal
survey-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by
Survey 0:
User defined surveys with reporting.
Expanded functionality survey package derived from simple-survey.
survey 5.0.1 released by OpenACS
Selva Theme 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown


theme-selva 2.2.0 released 2005-09-28 by
Trackback 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Support for sending and receiving trackback pings.
Implements the trackback ping specification http://www.movabletype.org/docs/mttrackback.html, for use with lars-blogger.
trackback 0.1 released 2006-02-18 by OpenACS
Tsearch2 Driver 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Full text search support for Search via Tsearch2.
Provides an implementation for the search packages service contract for searching on postgresql.
tsearch2-driver 0.4d2 released by
User Preferences 0:
Support for user-preference storage

user-preferences 0.5d3 released 2004-01-01 by OpenACS
User Profile 0:


user-profile 2.1.2 released 2004-03-10 by OpenACS
User Tracking 0:
Package for user tracking
The purpose behind this development is to ensure we track and retrieve knowledge about how end users are making use of the system. The main objective of this package will be to track user behaviour and activities, so that Professors and administrators can use this to understand how the system is used and make improvements in the learning process.
user-tracking 0.1d3 released 2005-04-12 by E-lane
Views 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
Track views of objects.
Records views of objects, tracks summary count per object and can be used for displaying which objects are "new" to a given user.
views 0.1d released by Xarg
Weblogger Portlet 0:


weblogger-portlet 2.2.0 released 2006-07-31 by Collaboraid
Workflow 0:
A Tcl API for creating and managing workflows.
This package lets you define the process that your tickets, articles, documents, reports, claims, change requests, or any other object of interest, must go through to ensure consistent quality and to avoid that any cases falls through the cracks. It supports the Bug Tracker, CMS publication, simple approval, and much more.

For more information, see: the workflow specification.
workflow 2.1.1 released 2004-01-30 by Collaboraid

XML-RPC Server 0:
A simple XML-RPC server.
This package implements a simple XML-RPC server. It receives XML-RPC calls, decodes the XML and then calls the requested method on the OpenACS server. Code is based on ns_xmlrpc, but now uses tDOM.
xml-rpc 0.3 released 2003-10-09 by Vinod Kurup
XOTcl Core 0: New Submission or Maturity Unknown
XOTcl library functionality (e.g. thread handling, online documentation, Generic Form and List Classes)
This component contains some core functionality for OACS applications using XOTcl. It includes XOTcl thread handling for OACS (supporting persistent and volatile threads) and a definitions for documenting XOTcl object, classes and methods integrated with the api-browser of OACS. Documented procs and instproc an be created using the methods ad_proc and ad_instproc. This component provides as well an XOTcl Object and Class browser, as well as means to control the recreation of objects and classes when components are reloaded. 0.23 contains a major overhaul of the Generic classes. Object preliminary object layer for content repository, oo templating. 0.36 brings caching support for cr-items. 0.38: important change: uses cr_items.name instead of cr_revision.title to label content items. This effects as well the api (lookup uses -name instead of -title).
xotcl-core 0.38 released 2006-05-03 by
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