Blogging Roller

When I found out about the big Roller installation inside IBM, I urged the IBM guys to move to Roller 1.0 and to help out with Roller development. Well now, looks like that's happening (tho they're probably going to skip straight to Roller 2.0). IBM blogger Elias Torres has been participating on the Roller list, submitting patches (for Apache Derby and IBM DB2 support) and showing great interest in further contributions. So, I just want to say: thanks Elias!

Wondering what's going on with Roller and Derby? Elias has submitted a couple of patches, but Derby support is not quite there yet. I think there's a pretty good chance we'll be able to work out the issues in the 2.0 timeframe. One of the reasons I upgraded Roller to use Hibernate3 yesterday (the 2.X to 3.0 migration was quite a pain, BTW) was to help Elias along. He may have to fine-tune Hibernate's Derby and he'd much rather do that with a modern version of Hibernate (we were on Hibernate 2.1.4 before).