Blogging Roller

I've been playing with Glassfish and the Java Web Services Dev. Pack (JWSDP)  this week, hoping to learn what's new in WS-* land. But, of course, as soon as I saw the wonderful Glassfish admin UI, I just couldn't resist trying to get Roller up and running. I figured it would be easy.

In the past, we've had problems with Glassfish because it didn't include a JDBC security realm, but we recently switched Roller over to Acegi security so we don't need a security realm anymore. No joy -- right now Acegi doesn't work on Glassfish (and I'm using Glassfish b32, the very latest build).

Amy Roh is working a different angle. Glassfish now has an experimental JDBC security realm and she's trying to get Roller 2.0 (pre-Acegi) working with that. She's running in to problems too.

Roller's a pretty good app server smoke test, eh? I hope we can get both of these issues resolved before final Glassfish.

Update: the Glassfish/Acegi problem has been marked as fixed in Glassfish CVS. Maybe it'll be in build 38?

Ed Burnette: If you really want to ensure true freedom of your code, put it under the control of a Foundation like Apache or Eclipse. Foundations are not controlled by any one company so you can feel comfortable about being on a level playing field with your competitors.

Update: I've gotten a couple of backchannel comments about this post, so I should say that I don't necessarily agree with all quotes I post on my blog. I post quotes representing viewpoints that I find interesting and worthy of consideration.

I do agree with Ed that independent foundations are very important to open source, but I disagree or find fault in some of the rest of his post. For example, Ed seems to imply that GPL is used only by greedy companies. I don't agree with that sentiment at all. Ed also said that foundations can't be bought and (like James) I don't agree with that either. And finally, Ed groups Eclipse Foundation with the Apache Software Foundation and I don't think Eclipse is quite as independent as Apache (and how much does it cost to join Eclipse again?).