Overview

We've put a lot of thought into the architecture of BigBlueButton. Our goal was to make it easy for other developers to use BigBlueButton as a platform to build other collaborative applications.

Trunk Overview

The trunk of the SVN repository contains the following important parts:

• bigbluebutton-apps - The server side red5 web-apps of BigBlueButton
• bigbluebutton-client - The Flex/Flash client of BigBlueButton
• bigbluebutton-web - The Grails application for scheduling conferences and logging in/out
• deskshare-app - The Desktop Sharing server side red5 web-app
• deskshare-applet - The Applet program used to capture the screen on the client

Getting Started

The following links will get you going with setting up BigBlueButton. For most developers, we recommend using the VM. But if you want to see all the components, go for Installing from source.

• Overview of Architecture
• Setting up a Development Environment (see also 0.8 dev setup)
• Branding BigBlueButton client interface
• Configuring the BigBlueButton client
• Tutorial on Creating a New Module
• API for Integration with Third-Party Applications
• Localization of BigBlueButton into Another Lanugage

See also instructions for installing BigBlueButton:

• Download BigBlueButton VM
• Installing on Ubuntu (15 minutes)
• Installing from source
• Configuration Files