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Open Project Services (OPS) is a project collaboration platform, integrating server components such as e-mail, calendaring, timesheet

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Open Project Services Team

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Open Project Services (OPS) is a project collaboration platform, integrating server components such as e-mail, calendaring, timesheets, documents, knowledge, etc. with standards complient clients. Open Project Services consists of a project server and a set of client extensions.

We are building a project collaboration platform. It consists of a project server that integrates with services needed within a project, e.g. e-mail, calendaring, timesheets, documents, knowledge, etc.

The project server is a Webservices hub based on Java (J2EE). The persistence layer for project information is LDAP. We use OpenLDAP now, but others should also be possible. The e-mail backend makes use of a standard IMAP server. Our reference implementation uses Courier.

We are building extensions/plugins for clients, making them OPS-enabled. We support e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird (XUL) and Squirrelmail (PHP) for e-mail clients. For the calendaring and timesheet components we have a Mozilla Sunbird extension (XUL).

In short: we are building a project collaboration environment on an OSS stack, enriching services with project information, using COTS clients/servers and open standards.

What's New in This Release:
This release includes some changes to the underlying LDAP schema to make it possible to disable tasks when they are completed.
To make use of this new feature, the Web services and the sunbird timesheet client have to be updated.