VolanoChat Licence Download

The VOLANO^® chat software for the Java™ platform is used by Web sites around the world for community building, distance learning, live events, romance and dating, on-line business meetings, support groups, on-line sales, help desks, chat room hosting, and more. The pure Java VOLANO chat server and its Java applet clients have kept the world chatting on the Internet since 1996.

Client Features

The VOLANO chat server includes three Java applets: VolanoChat, MyVolanoChat, and WebVolanoChat. These client applets are written in pure Java to run in any Web browser with Java support, and contain the following features:

Customizable interface

Change the default look and feel of the chat applets by modifying their text, fonts, colors, images, logos, advertisements, and sounds.

Translatable interface

Translate the chat applet interface into any language. Translations for Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish are already provided.

Color and font themes

Define user-selectable color and font themes for the chat applets.

Chat room advertisements

Rotate banner advertisements in the chat rooms using static images or delivered dynamically by a local or remote ad server.

Ability to ignore users

Users can ignore others in the chat room so that all messages from another user are blocked from display.

Server Features

The VOLANO chat server is written in pure Java so that it can run on any Java-compatible operating system such as Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, or FreeBSD. Every VOLANO chat server has the following features:

Unlimited chat users

There is no artificial limit on the number of people who can connect to the chat server at the same time.

Unlimited chat rooms

There is no artificial limit on the number of chat rooms that can be made available in the chat server at the same time.

Unlimited client Web sites

There is no restriction on the number of different Web pages, Web sites, or domain names through which users can connect to a single VOLANO chat server using its built-in Java applets.

Public chat rooms

Public chat rooms are available in a list for all users to enter using the VolanoChat applet.

Private chat rooms

Private chat rooms are one-on-one chat sessions launched by double-clicking another user's name from within a chat room.

Personal chat rooms

Personal chat rooms are hidden from the list of public rooms and can be entered only through the Web page on which they're defined.

Extensive access control

Restrict access to users by their IP address or by the referring Web page through which they are connecting, or use external DNS-based blacklists to restrict access by IP address.

External membership database

Restrict access by member names and passwords in any external database or directory through the use of simple CGI scripts or servlets written in any language, such as PHP, Python, Perl, or Java. Restrict access to the chat server by members only, or allow both members and non-members to chat.

Live moderated events

Host live events with moderators and guests where the moderators receive questions from the audience and select among them to pose questions to the guest.

Ability to remove, disconnect, or ban users

Monitors can remove users from a chat room, disconnect users from the chat server, or disconnect and ban users from the chat server by IP address.

Message flood control

Slow down attempts to flood chat rooms with messages using the built-in and tunable flood control.

Customizable access logs

Obtain the server access log information in any format so that it's available to external log analysis tools such as Analog, Webalizer, or even to spreadsheet programs.

Customizable message logs

Transcribe the chat message text of the chat rooms so that it's available for later use in either HTML or plain text.

Real-time status reporting

Receive real-time reports on connection counts, memory usage, and message throughput from the chat server.

Server-side event reporting

Write CGI scripts in any language that receive reports about events in a chat room, such as all chat messages and when users enter or leave the chat room.