Presentation

Lucane is a free and opensource groupware, written in Java. Its main applications are described on the top menu.

Application organization

Lucane's client is separated into plugins. The startup plugin acts as an application launcher, or a dock. These applications are splitted into categories : Productivity, Communication, Tools, ...

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Client/Server and Web access

Even if Lucane was primarily designed to work as a desktop application, we can now access to asynchronous applications (such as calendar or forum) using a web browser.

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Translations

Lucane is fully translated into English, French, Dutch and German. Partial translations are available for Spanish and Polish.

Customizable persistance

Lucane's server can use any database engine, as long as this one has a JDBC driver. Supported databases are HSQLDb (bundled with lucane, nothing to add), MySQL and Postgres.

It's also possible to manage users, apps, ... using a LDAP directory.

Network protocol

Our network protocol can handle peer to peer connections, in order to avoid stressing the server. Every object is automatically zipped before being sent. You can cipher everything by enabling SSL.