Melody is an open source content management system for bloggers and publishers where its community of users and contributors is its most important feature. This article by Serdar Yegulalp covers the salient features of Melody and how a vibrant community is the foundation on which all successful products and services are built today. The article also guides us through the setup process for pre-1.0 build of Melody, while the full 1.0 revision shouldn’t be more than a few months around the corner.

Once your extensions are working, we can begin exploring call routing also called as call control. When someone calls from the outside world, what do you want to do with the call? How do you want your calls to get to an extension? Unless you want your calls to go directly to an extension, you will need to configure one or more of the following features which we'll be covering in this article by Matthew M. Landis and Robert Lloyd, authors of The 3CX IP PBX Tutorial:

• Ring groups (also called Hunt groups in other PBX systems)
• Digital Receptionists or Auto-attendants
• Call by name (also called Dial by Name in some PBX systems)
• Call queues

This article by Nirav Assar, is a supplement to the book JBoss RichFaces 3.3 by Demetrio Filocamo. The book offers a thorough explanation on how to effectively use RichFaces technology to enhance your enterprise applications. The book provides many code examples for the reader to experiment with and run on their local machine. It also provides some very important installation steps for developers such as the Seam Framework download, seam-gen tool operation, and Eclipse with JBoss tools. As a supplement to the book, this article provides a guide to install several other necessary components. The components will provide the user with a sufficient environment to deploy and test the examples provided in the book. These installations prove invaluable when trying to learn new technologies and can possibly avoid large amounts of time wasted searching for the correct path.

This article provides guidance for:

• JBoss Server Installation
• Starting JBoss Server within Eclipse
• MySql Installation
• Build and Deploy Example applications

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