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LogicalDOC

Developer(s)	Logical Objects snc
Stable release	5.0 / 2009-12-15; 4 days ago
Written in	Java, JSP and JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Document Management System, DMS, Groupware, Open Source
License	Enterprise Edition - Proprietary Community Edition - LGPL v3
Website	LogicalDOC Homepage

LogicalDOC is a document management system for Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems.
LogicalDOC is available in two different flavors. LogicalDOC Community which is free software, LGPL licensed open source, open standards, but without commercial support, and LogicalDOC Enterprise Edition which is commercially / proprietary licensed open source, open standards with enterprise scale.
LogicalDOCs design is geared towards users who require a high degree of modularity and scalable performance. LogicalDOC provides a WebDAV interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web document management system deployable on Apache Tomcat with Lucene indexing. The LogicalDOC system is developed using Java technology.

1 History
2 Architecture
3 Features
4 References
5 See also
6 Further Reading
7 External links

History

The project LogicalDOC started in 2007 from the basis of Contineo, an Open Source DMS developed by a German team. Initially LogicalDOC EE was a commercial Contineo customization and the Logical Objects development team worked for the Contineo project. Since the end of 2008, LogicalDOC has started a new development way to increase the document management capabilities simplifying the code complexity and improving maintainability with a new archictecture and new features to satisfy the users requests.

The first open source release was LogicalDOC CE 3.6 that was released in October 2008.^[1]

In February 2009 has been released version 4.0.2 of LogicalDOC. This release introduced support for WebDAV^[2] (also available in the Community edition, and implemented by Sebastian Wenzky), enabling the ability to do maintenance on the document repository, and increasing the system capacity to handle up to 1,000,000 documents.

In June 2009 has been released version 4.5 of LogicalDOC. One of the most important features of this version is the support for OpenLDAP authentication^[3]

The latest version of the software: the 5.0 is available for download and evaluation since December 2009. One of the most important features of this version is a feature rich Workflow and a complete auditing system. Moreover, this release shows a new redesign GUI.

In addition to LogicalDOCs main website ^[4], LogicalDOC may also be downloaded from SourceForge.

Today Logical Objects itself and other companies all around the world offer services for the open source release like: Citeria^[5]

Architecture

LogicalDOC is developed using Java technology based on J2EE standards and the Apache Tomcat application server. Therefore it can be installed and executed on various platforms (Linux, Windows, etc.)

The LogicalDOC architecture is based on the following technologies:

Apache Tomcat Application Server
Java J2EE
Lucene
Spring Framework
Hibernate (ORM)
JavaServer Faces (JSF)
Apache CXF (Web-services JAX-WS)

Due to its architecture, LogicalDOC can work on any operating system—Unix, Linux, Windows.

Data can be stored in a directory or in any RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)

Features

LogicalDOC is capable of the following:

Document Management
Document versioning with Check-In Check-Out
Diffs among metadata version
Records Management
Image Management
Repository access via Web, WebDAV, Web Service
External User Authentication to OpenLDAP or Active Directory servers
Lucene search
Multi-language support
Discussion Forums on Documents
Internal Messaging system
Document Tagging with browse by tag and Tag-Cloud
Portable application packaging
Multi-platform support (officially Windows, Linux; MAC OS X experimental)
Browser-based GUI (official support for Internet Explorer and Firefox)
Acquisition of documents from e-mail boxes
Import and export of documents archives
Setting a custom ID on a document
Automatic extraction of tags when importing a document
Immediate indexing when importing a document
Scanning of a document that can be directly stored into the system
Sign digitally documents to ensure integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation by the author
Indexing of raster documents, such as TIFF, JPG, PDF, through Optical Character Recognition (OCR)