Blogging Roller

JSPWiki vs. XWiki

Dave Johnson — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:49:48 +0000

via <a href= "http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/jspwiki_and_xwiki_evaluations">Jim Grisanzio: Chris Phelan has done evaluations of <a href= "http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64619&tstart=0">JSPWiki and XWiki for use on the OpenSolaris.org site. Based on his 32 requirements, XWiki came out on top.

On balance, XWiki wins by virtue of having better support for management, searching, page taxonomies, virtual servers, content export and language translation/localization support.

JSPWiki has slightly better support for identifying orphaned pages and accesskey support (XWiki 1.4 will have support for access keys).

Confluence was not considered because requirement #0 is "the software must be free and open source," which seems like a reasonable request when selecting software for an open source community site.

re: JSPWiki@Apache?

Dave Johnson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:26:13 +0000

Congrats are also in order for the JSPWiki team. As Janne Jalkanen notes, JSPWiki was accepted into the Apache Incubator yesterday. I'm proud to be one of the four mentors who will guide the project through the incubation process. Janne and the JSPWiki team put together a great proposal and I think it was clear to everybody involved in the vote that these folks know what they're doing. They'll master the Apache way in no time.

@ApacheConEU: Roller and blogs as a web dev. platform

Dave Johnson — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:27:04 +0000

Last week was deadline week for JavaOne and ApacheCon EU presentations, so I was busy. Fortunately for me, other deadlines were postponed, I did some begging for time and I actually had time to take a short vacation; a family reunion at Stone Mountain park, Georgia.

ApacheCon EU is only a couple of weeks away now and it's before JavaOne so I'll tell you about my ApacheCon talk first. My ApacheCon EU talk is a new. The title is "Roller and blogs as a web development platform" and it explains how blogs, planets, wikis and feeds can be automated and integrated. And how Apache Roller can be extended and customized via templates, scripting and plugins. Here's an outline of the talk:

Overview
   The self-service web
   With no code at all
   Or with a little...
   Feed based integration
Blog, wiki and feed Web services
   MetaWeblog API, methods and Java examples
   Propono Blog Client and Java example
   Atom Publishing Protocol
   Service Doc, Collections and Entries
   Propono Atom Client and Java example
   Roller Admin Interface
   WikiRPCInterface
Blog customization via templates
   Template Editor
   Weblog Templates
   Model objects
   Data Model
   Generating JSON for Dojo and screenshot
Blog server customization via plugins
   Which parts of Roller API to use
   Weblog Entry Plugins and examples
   Page Model Plugins
   Page Rendering & Renderer plugins
   Request Mapping & Request Mapper plugins
   Comment Validator plugins
Example: Scripting languages in Roller
   BSF Renderer plugin
   JRuby via BSF Renderer plugin
   Other Renderer plugins
   Roller admin scripting with Groovy
Planet server aggregation
   What is a Planet server?
   Roller-Planet
   Roller-Planet plans
Use case: Software business blogs
   Blogs in development
   Development Dashboard
   Blogs in Marketing
   Product news & links blogs
   Developer & evangelist blogs
   Blogs in the on-line store
For more information
Summary
Q & A