Blogging Roller

Optaros open source CMS study: Roller is the most established of the Java-based blogging softwares. Powering sites such as the popular blogs.sun.com and JRoller, Roller certainly qualifies as industrial strength. Roller is designed to host multiple blogs, each with its own formatting layout and style.

As you can see above, Scott Gottlieb of Optaros included Roller in his evaluation of open source CMS servers. Roller did pretty well considering that Optaros evaluated an old release (1.3) and didn't seem to notice Roller's ongoing move to Apache Software Foundation governance.

And coming soon: Forrester Research will be including Roller in it's Forrester Wave evaluation of blogging solutions. That'll be good for Roller in a couple of ways. It will get us some more publicity for the project and it'll help us understand Roller's deficiencies when compared to other systems.

Another excellent introductory article about the ROME feed API today on the O'Reilly network. Check out ROME in a Day by ROME project member Mark Woodman (and while you're at Mark's site check out RSS gets an enema and Mark's charming enema illustration).