Using blojsom with GlassFish

I was looking at popular blogging tools available out there and tried out blojsom, on GlassFish. Blojsom is a java based blogging package, designed to run on an application server. Using GlassFish as the application server turned out to be a fairly straightforward exercise.

I downloaded build b38 of Glassfish and then followed the instructions at GlassFish Quick Start Guide to start the server and deploy an application

After installing Glassfish, I downloaded blojsom which is packaged as a web app. Then I copied blojsom.war to GlassFish's autodeploy directory, <glassfish-install-dir>/domains/domain1/autodeploy. I then pointed the browser to http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default and was able to access the blojsom application. To log into blojsom, I went to http://localhost:8080/blojsom/blog/default/?flavor=admin (username "default", password "123default456"). Then I added some categories and blog entries.

I also added some users by modifying
<glassfish-install-dir>\domains\domain1\applications\j2ee-modules\blojsom\WEB-INF\ default\authorization.properties
file and gave permissions to these users by modifying
<glassfish-install-dir>\domains\domain1\applications\j2ee-modules\blojsom\WEB-INF\ default\permissions.properties
file. I did all this by following instructions in blojsom configuration guide

Posted at 03:34PM Feb 27, 2006 by sirajg in Sun  |  Comments[5]