Rapla 1.3

Raplas objective is to provide an easy-to-use resource-management system.
The primary target of the program were universities. Rapla allows coordination beetween the lectures and the administration. It offers multiple ways to view the available resources and schedule the events.
Rapla started as a simple room booking software, but in the last five years it evolved into a fully configurable framework for event and resource-management.
Developement has started in a practical course at the department of Computer Science III at the University of Bonn, Germany.
Main features:
- Multi-user, multi-languages (6 at the moment)
- Conflict-management
- A printable calendar
- Grouping of appointments in reservations
- Extensive appointment manipulation (repeating, exceptions)
- support for periods
- Hierarchical categorization of objects. Do you have to model your hierarchical organsiation?
- A fine-grained permission model. You can set who can access what, when and how.
- Customizable resource-, person-, and event-types. You can create your own types, with their specific attributes.
- Usable in client-server mode or as standalone application.
- Startable with webstart or as an applet (Java Plugin needed)
- Stores data in xml-file or with the help of sql-database
- Email notification on resource allocation
- Plugin architecture (with currently a dozen plugins available)
- HTML Read-only month-,week- and day- view. You can specify with filters what and how it should be visible to the outside.
Enhancements:
New features
- Added paste as functionality
- Added Data Source (use datasource tag instead of driver, username and password to enable datasource)
- New plugable Main menu when you go on the first site of the web version
- You can now enable a list of all exported calendars in the main menu of the web version
- Show Navigation bar is now a parameter when exporting calendars to html
- You can now start rapla under windows with rapla.exe
- New service wrapper for starting rapla as a server under unix, osx and windows (load rapla_as_service.zip)
- There is a raplabootstrap.jar for starting rapla with a double click on most systems
Changes
- New icon for "new weekly event"
- In source version data.xml and config files are moved to webapp folder
- New jetty is used
- If jndi doesnt work. Authe
Bugfixes
- You can now export filename with characters that need to be url encoded
- Fixed Bug with special characters during load under tomcat or jetty
- It is now possible to have working times with a higher start hour than end hour e.g. 20:00 - 04:00
- [ 1593336 ] even though restricted, user can create conflict by dragging
- Workaround for bug in 1.6 that doesnt render the print dialog correctly when displayed for the first time
- [ 1571870 ] Display Japanese Characters
- [ 1555022 ] TimeField cant instantiate for "CH" locale
- Notification mail handles removes correctly
- You can use Japanese Characters in html
- If an authentication store (e.g. jndi) doesnt work Rapla will still remain usable with the original logins. But not for the jndi users