Blogging Roller

People are starting to download the Roller 0.9.0 release.  Looks like some of them are downloading source and trying to build it too.  That's great.  I hope they will complain bitterly (i.e. report bugs) when things don't work or work in a stupid way.

Using David Berry's tutorial on Using FrontPage with Radio Weblogs I was able to create pages here for the Roller User and Installation guides (even though I am not using FrontPage).  This is not exacly an intuitive process.  The pages look good, but I'm not sure hosting them here is any easier than using scp to copy them to SourceForge.

Hopefully, my article on Roller - also known as Weblogging with Open Source J2EE - will be published next Wednesday (April 17). I will keep you posted.

FIRST POST!!!

Roller is a Weblogger that was written as the example application for an article on Open Source Java / J2EE development tools (coming soon). Roller illustrates the use of the Struts Servlet framework, the Castor JDO persistence engine, the XDoclet code generator and the Velocity template processor.

Currently, Roller lives at SourceForge and the Roller downloads, bug-lists, etc. will continue to live at SourceForge.  But, the Roller weblog will be hosted here on Weblog.COM - for now.  Why not host the weblog on Roller you wonder? There are several reasons for that: 1) Roller is not quite ready for "production use," 2) I have yet to find an inexpensive ISP that supports the Servlet 2.3 API and 3) I want to learn about Radio.