Blogging Roller

Anthony Eden has a unique perspective on Roller because he is running a website that supports over 40 Roller users. He is our biggest customer and he needs better admin tools.

<a href= "http://www.raibledesigns.com/page/rd/20020903#the_future_of_roller"> Matt mentioned the idea of adding an option for drop-down menus in the Editor UI and mentioned StrutsMenu. Some time ago, I looked at StrutsMenu and it did not do quite what I wanted to to, so I set about creating a generic JSP menu tag using an MVC architecture. The Roller MenuTag reads the menu configuration from an <a href= "http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/roller/roller/deploy/WEB-INF/editor-menu.xml?rev=1.9&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup"> XML file and then calls a <a href= "http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/roller/roller/src/org/roller/presentation/tags/menu/tabbed.tpl?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup"> Velocity script to render the menu.

So, creating a new drop-down menu should be as simple as writing a new Velocity script to spit out the right code to invoke CoolMenu or Hiermenu or what have you.

<a href= "http://www.raibledesigns.com/page/rd/20020903#the_future_of_roller"> Matt Raible responded with his thoughts on Roller and the things he is interested in developing. I'm really looking forward to the UI enhancements he wants to do.

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Read at ZDNet <a href= "http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2878365,00.html"> Part 1 and <a href= "http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2878628,00.html"> Part 2. I like what he had to say about Java, Solaris, and the future of Sun. <a href= "http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2878648,00.html"> Here is a ZDNet analysis of the interview. via <a href= "http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jsp?forum=61&thread=4962"> JavaLobby.[Karl Martino - paradox1x]