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JCAPTCHA

JCAPTCHA

stands for J ava C ompletely A utomated P ublic T est to tell C omputers and H umans A part

LICENSE LGPL

GNU Library or Lesser General Public License
JCAPTCHA is the Open Source Java framework for Captcha definition and integration.

Features

End User Application oriented features

Highly customizable captcha tests
Many ready to use configurations (see the engine sub project)
Gimpy and Fisheye tests
Usage statistics exposed by JMX
Runtime modification of captcha test and/or service
Many integration modules (struts, filter, jroller etc...)

AI research oriented features

High level language for Captcha Test definition
Many ready to use components to build new Captcha tests
Allows automation of Neural Network learning procedures and fitness fonction definition for Genetic Algorithms

News

09/06/2005 : RC 2.0.1 is out!

  • Site improvements
  • Some parts of the site are now hosted using the OCTO Technology web access on the SushiWiki server. Thanks to Eric Groise.
  • Moved from moniwiki to confluence for collaboration
  • Moved from sourceforge to jira for issue tracking
  • Thanks to Atlassian software
  • framework improvements
  • This is a minor bug fix release
  • Moving to a more readable default engine
  • Tunning some engine
  • New Issue tracker system, thanks to altassian : see jcaptcha jira
  • Removing log configuration from jar : see bug 1078250 @ sourceforge
  • Moving tld to META-INF directory : see bug 1087577 @ sourceforge

18/11/2004

  • RC-2 available including following new features:
  • JRoller integration module and documentation
  • New captcha storage service based on Ehcache
  • Captcha Service Optimisation by new implementation of asynchronous Captcha buffer based on Ehcache
  • Sruts tutorial + sample application based on the struts mailreader sample

23/10/2004

  • Near RC-2
  • Adding a Roller module
  • Adding a service implementation using ehcache as store
  • Adding a service implementation that asynchronously builds a captcha buffer
  • Adding a struts sample based on the struts mailreader sample app

06/08/2004

  • Releasing RC-1
  • BEWARE : this new version has a complete new architecture from beta-2! Major package renaming and refactoring!!!!
  • We have splited the source tree : this version is under the jcaptcha/jcaptcha source folder in CVS.

01/08/2004

  • Adding performance tests for Engines
  • New logo for JcaptchaLogo submitted, waiting for vote!
  • End of refactoring
  • Adding a default engine and service ready to use.

17/05/2004 moving to jdk1.3

  • Code has moved : now JDK 1.3
  • will be release in the beta-5

20/04/04

  • Two new captchas :
  • FishEye : a "clic on the center of deformation" challenge.
  • initialization of sound implementation.

06/04/04 Major refactoring work is almost done. A new version is about to be released.

  • This new release includes :
  • the cleaned CoreModule that provides Captchas interfaces and typed implementations.
  • the renamed EngineModule : an engine provides ready to use captchas.
  • the new ServiceModule : a service provide a standardized interface to serve Captchas, and a managageable interface too.
  • the new ModuleBase and ModuleStruts providing stuff to integrate a captcha service with your application.
  • Licence has been moved from Apache to LGPL.
  • A tutorial to captchaized your application is on its way, with two samples :
    the captcha-ized http://www.rollerweblogger.org/page/project and the J2EE petstore.

12/02/04

  • New architecture for the j2ee module commited : all the "business" logic has been mutualized in a JMX manageable ?ImageCaptchaService class. A Web service endpoint for axis has been created in the com.octo.captcha.j2ee.rpc package. You can find its axis deployment descriptor (.wsdd) in the src/conf directory. The web service need to be further tested, but it will be documented woth a user manual similar to the ImageCaptchaFilter one for the beta2 (or beta3 ?) release. It is also planned to unit test the ?ImageCaptchaService and to use it in a new version of the ImageCaptchaFilter.
    10/02/04 Two new components commited : composedictionarywordgenerator and baffletextpaster to enable parc like jcaptchas.

09/02/04 The Service interfaces and base implementations are commited

07/02/04 New site is up!

02/02/04 JcapTcha beta 1.0, the java CAPTCHA framework is available for download on sourceforge

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