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Java based TELNET BBS client. Includes an AWT application and Applet.

Java Terminal version 3.0 has been released.

This version is a "hard coded" TELNETBBS/ANSIBBS terminal client. Programmable extensibility has been removed and replaced by final method invocations to increase performance. The future of this project is uncertain, this may be the final version.

Java Terminal 2.1 has now been released.

- Scrollback repaint issue fixed
- Protocol, Encoding, Width and Height can be changed in the Edit dialog while connected
- Applet layout is now managed
- Added applet help button and corresponding HTML documents
- Updated the documentation and translated all JT related documents into french

Java Terminal 2.0 has now been released.

All known bugs have been addressed in this version. New features include:

- Audio/visual bell notification
- Better runtime reconfiguration support
- Cross-platform compatible configuration format
- Smaller applet JAR package release
- Updated documentation included in all packages
- Code optimizations for performance
- Configurable terminal width/height
- More exceptions are handled without failure
- Menu layout has been improved

Thank you for your interest in the JavaTerminal project. I have decided to release it on SourceForge in case anyone was interested in using it, reporting bugs, requesting features or even extending it's features, such as adding file transfer capabilities, which is fairly trivial. Presently it supports a subset of the TELNET and ANSI X3.64 specifications and works very well with Synchronet BBS and all DOOR games I've tried it with.... read more