For those not know Vanilla Discussion Forum, one word: SWEET. Vanilla is a new kind of web forum With Vanilla we wanted to break the mold created and followed by just about every other forum on the web. We sat down and thought about what we liked, and more importantly, what we didn't like about web forums. We wanted emphasis on the discussions rather than the statistics. We wanted to stop using MSN or AIM to send secret messages to other forum members; We wanted to be able to save the common searches. Basically, we wanted the thing to work for us instead of against us. Most importantly we wanted it to be free and we wanted it to run on just about every web server out there. Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. J!Vanilla forum bridge is developed to be compatible with Joomla 1.0.x and Vanilla 1.1.4. A automated installer is included with every version of Joomla!Vanilla component; it allow users to install vanilla together joomla! in 3 pretty easy steps. Its probably the easiest and most painless way to get up and running. Just follow the directions and you should not have any major setup issues. Features * Vanilla db tables are created in same joomla! database where component is installed * Existent joomla users are sync with vanilla setup after install * Allow manage Vanilla Forum from backend * Changes on Vanilla forum code minimized * Several Bug fixes