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Shared: Glacier, Yellowstone, and the Grand Tetons Again (2010) - Sun Jan 02 18:19:43 EST 2011

snoopdave: "Nobody wants an app for each content source" http://bit.ly/ijgACO - 2011-01-02 12:10:00.0

snoopdave: RT @sspeiche: Contributed #oslc service provider JUnit-based test suite http://tinyurl.com/2bdasvg more updates coming in the new year - 2011-01-04 08:20:34.0

snoopdave: No coffee and email is down - not a great way to start the work-year http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-10-18/ - 2011-01-04 08:29:39.0

snoopdave: RT @apache_roller: Apache Roller 5.0 RC3 files are available for testing http://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/apache_roller_5_0_rc3 - 2011-01-04 08:33:41.0

On the last day of 2010, I made available the third release candidate for Apache Roller 5.0. The main difference between this new candidate and the previous one is that the new RC3 runs on Java EE 6 servers: Glassfish 3, JBoss 6 and Websphere 8 (currently in beta). Making this happen took a lot more work than I expected and I'll blog about that over the next couple of weeks as it is an interesting case study in Java EE 6 portability.

Here's the announcement:

Apache Roller 5.0 Release Candidate RC3 is now available for testing.
Note that this is NOT a release of the Apache Software Foundation or
anybody else; this release candidate is for testing purposes only and
not recommended for production.

   What's new in Roller 5.0:
   https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/What's+new+in+Roller+5.0

   Change list (issues resolved since 4.0)
   http://bit.ly/gAhDWR

   Issues resolved since last release candidate (RC3)
   http://bit.ly/dZ27Nx

   Signed binary and source files. Also, documentation in PDF form
   http://people.apache.org/~snoopdave/apache-roller-5.0/

The biggest change in RC3 is the new support for Java EE 6 application
servers: Glassfish 3, JBoss 6 and Websphere 8 (beta). I've been able
to verify that Roller runs on all of those servers, and I updated the
installation guide to explain in detail how you install on Glassfish,
JBoss and WebSphere.

If you would like to help out then please test RC3, discuss the
problems you encounter here and file specific bugs with steps to
reproduce in the Roller JIRA bug tracking system.

Thanks,
Dave