GARDENIA - GESTAO EMPRESARIAL

Author: GOTHAM - Sistemas Integrados de Gestao Empresarial Lda.
WebSite: http://www.gotham.pt 
Alternative WebSite: http://gardenia.sf.net
Source Code: Available on above websites, and on http://www.sf.net/projects/gardenia/
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Current Version: __GARDENIA_VERSION__
Build Date: __GARDENIA_BUILD_DATE__

Description:

GARDENIA is a enterprise management software designed specifically for the 
Portuguese (Portugal) market, by GOTHAM - Sistemas Integrados de Gestao Empresarial Lda.

It is distributed free of cost, under LGPL license.

GOTHAM provides several support options for GARDENIA. You can check it out
at our website, on http://www.gotham.pt.

Presented in a web environment and developed using Java 2 Enterprise Edition 
frameworks, it is capable of performing the following operations:

   * Customer and Contacts Management
   * Suppliers Management
   * Creation and Management of several documents, according to legal requirements:
         o Invoices ("Factura" and "Venda a Dinheiro")
         o Credit/Debit Notes
         o "Factura Pro-Forma"
         o Orders
         o New Document Types Creation
   * Stock Management (integrated with Document Management)
   * Management Reports
   * Customer/Suppliers related Events (CRM)
   * Customer/Suppliers related Issues/Processes (Issue Tracking, CRM)
   * Display of general business information in a central place (dashboard). 


Credits:

 GARDENIA - GESTAO EMPRESARIAL was created by GOTHAM - Sistemas Integrados de Gestao Empresarial Lda.
 (http://www.gotham.pt), who holds the copyrights.

 GARDENIA was built using several open source libraries and development frameworks.
 These are listed bellow, as well as the project links

 - JAVA - Java SDK e J2EE - http://java.sun.com
 - jDbForms - J2EE Web RAD Framework - http://jdbforms.sf.net
 - JasperReports - Java Reporting Solution - http://jasperreports.sf.net
 - iReport - JasperReports Design GUI - http://ireport.sf.net
 - log4j - Java Logging Library - http://logging.apache.org
 - TOMCAT - Java Web Application Server - http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat
 - FireBirdSQL - High Performance SQL Relational Database - http://www.firebirdsql.org
 - Jetty - Java Web Application Server - http://jetty.mortbay.org
 - HSQLDB - HyperSonic Java SQL Database - http://hsqldb.sf.net
 - ThinLet - Java XUL (XML User Interface) Library  - http://thinlet.sf.net
 - IzPack - Installation Package Generator - http://www.izforge.com/izpack/
 - IzPack Launcher - Binary (win32) launcher for IzPack - http://www.izforge.com/izpack/
 - Roxes Ant Tasks - Usefull Ant Tasks - http://www.roxes.com/produkte/rat.html
 - ANT - Software Build Tool - http://ant.apache.org
 - JSTL - Jakarta Default Taglibs - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - CeWolf -  JSP Tags for using JFreeCharts - http://cewolf.sf.net
 - JFreeChart - Java lib for Charts - http://www.jfree.org
 - Scriptaculous - JavaScript lib - http://script.aculo.us
 - Open Rico - JavaScript Lib - http://www.openrico.org
 - Javascript Calendar - A DHTML/Javascript Calendar - http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/
 - Jakarta Velocity - Templating system  - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - iText - PDF Library - http://itext.sf.net


 Indirectly (mostly due to dependencies of the above projects), it includes the following projects:

 - Jakarta Xerces  - http://xml.apache.org
 - Jakarta Xalan - http://xml.apache.org
 - Jakarta Commons - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - Jakarta Maven - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - Jakarta Cactus - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - Jakarta ORO - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - Jakarta POI - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - Jakarta Batik - http://jakarta.apache.org
 - HTTP Unit - http://httpunit.sf.net
 - MaxQ - http://maxq.tigris.org
 - JUnit - http://junit.sf.net
 - Neko HTML Parser - http://freshmeat.net/projects/nekohtml
 - ProtoMatter - http://protomatter.sf.net
 - Rhino JavaScript Engine - http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/