Apache Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog
server suitable for blog sites large and small. This is the project's
homepage, which provides a brief overview of the software and project as
well as links to
project news,
downloads,
user documentation,
install guide,
mailing-lists,
bug tracker,
wiki and the
FAQ.
Roller is a Java web application that should be able to run on any Java EE
server and any relational database. Currently, Roller is best supported on
Tomcat and MySQL -- but users have reported success running Roller on
Glassfish, Websphere, JBoss, Resin, Geronimo, Derby, PostgresSQL,
Oracle, etc.)
Here are some of Roller's key features:
- Multi-user blogging: can support tens of thousands of users and blogs
- Group blogging with three permisson levels (editor, author and limited)
- Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures
- Bloggers have complete control over blog layout/style via templates
- Built-in search engine indexes weblog entry content
- Pluggable cache and rendering system
- Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API
- All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats
Roller is a stable and production-ready blog
server in it's third major revision. It powers internal and external
employee blogs at Sun, IBM and other companies as well as the JRoller.com
Java blogging community. Roller graduated from the Apache Incubator in March
2007 and is now an official Apache project.
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