Over the past week, I have put together a Nukes on Jboss web application to facilitate communication about an annual golf tournament that my friends and I attend. I guess communication isn't the right word, really it's just a bunch of juvenile trash talking, but fun nevertheless.

My first impressions of nukes is that it is a really great idea that needs more work to be a useable out of the box. Below I have listed some good things and not so goods things that I have discovered so far.

The Good

• Easy to get it up and running. Approx 10-15 min.
• Wide array of features(forum, cms, permission's based, etc.)
• Easy on the pocket book

The Bad

• Some of the content is just plain bad. For instance, if you choose the "I am under 18 and do not have parental consent." link while registering, you get the following message: "You must be Nukes on JBoss or over, or have parental permission to register here. Please click here to return to the main page."
• There is no way to edit user permission's via the application, you must log into the jmx-console to do so.
• Cannot manage forum content(delete posts, edit posts, etc) with the supplied admin account?? Did I do something wrong?

The Ugly

• Documentation is very sparse. Other than the JBoss forum and a wiki there is not much more. While its enough to get you off the ground, it isn't good for much more.
• The BBCode markup doesn't seem to work. If I use the buttons when submitting a post, the code is posted as text.

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Posted by Mike Shoemaker on May 20, 2004 8:46:22 PM CDT #