Blogging Roller

Over the past month or so, I've been re-working Roller's bookmark management features. As part of this work I added a new Query API so that we no longer have to hard-code Castor or Hibernate query language statements into the Roller Business Layer, I modified BookmarkManager to handle folder hierarchies of arbitrary depth, and I modified the bookmark POJOs to use Castor and Hibernate's lazy-loading facilities. I also rewrote the bookmark management JSP pages and used the JSTL <fmt:message> tag to externalize all strings on the page (for I18N).

Below is the new bookmark manager interface. It works fine now, but it still needs a little fit and finish.

The new bookmark management features will be included in Roller 0.9.9. If you want a preview, check out the new Bookmark Management docs I'm working on.

Now that I've got the hierarchy thing down, I'm turning my attention to the WeblogManager where I will add support for multiple categories per weblog entry and for hierarchical categories.