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Congratulations to Dave Johnson and the rest of the Apache Roller team for releasing this major version.of the blogging engine used by 4292 Sun Public bloggers (86691 entries and 87365 comments). BSC (blogs.sun.com) has been running Roller 4.0-dev since July and as heavy users we give it the thumbs up (as we do to the team running the infrastructure). |
Roller now lets you handle themes much easier (get some here), supports plugins, has a much improved install process (including using the GlassFish Update Center), and implementation-wise uses Java 5, Struts 2 and JPA.
Who said Social Software was seldom written in Java?
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Dave is reporting progress towards Roller 4.0 "final". Let's hope this time it happens; BSC has been running 4.0 for over a month now. The other good development is that Gene Strokine (see RollerThemes) is now a contributor to the Roller Support project at Java.Net which includes themes, plugins, editor plugins and other support artifacts for Roller. Now that Roller 4.0 has stabilized we should get some nice contributions. |
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I had not noticed that the Enterprise Tech Tips is now available as a Blog (with associated feeds - RSS and Atom). For example, here is the Japex entry we highlighted recently. And yesterday (Monday) Sun released its financial results via a News feed. The world has changed; our engineering team could not work without Feeds (and Roller!). BTW, Ed is soliciting your suggestions on Tech Tip topics. |
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A bit lost in the noise of JavaOne was the announcement of the Release of SWDP R2. This is a bundle (home page, download page) of a several key Web 2.0 technologies that can work on Java containers, including Tomcat and GlassFish. The technologies include: jMaki, Dynamic Faces, Phobos, WADL, Rome, and Rome Propono. Also included are some Java APIs for REST which were the original submission on JSR-311; and check Paul's recent blog for a report on how that is going... |
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Atom is the future of Feed formats, but the present is very much still here in its full glory. The ROME project is great in dealing with this situation but ROME has been a bit under-resourced recently. Now Dave says that he is Interested in Revitalizing the project, which makes sense since Roller depends on ROME, and would be a great thing to do anyhow. If you want to help, talk with Dave. |
Dave is also working again on his BlogApps project, and he says he already has one helper: Ramesh.
The Bloggapp Project provides "what is essentially a complete RSS and Atom development kit, which includes feed parsers, generators, blog client libraries, an Atom protocol implementation, a set of ten useful blogapps, and an easy-to-install blog and wiki server". Dave Johnson's recent article on java.net explains the project's purpose and how to install and use the project's products, the Blogapps Examples and Blogapps Server, to jump-start your RSS and Atom development.
Recently on Slashdot, Simon P. Chappell has published a positive review of Dave Johnson's new book RSS and Atom in Action.
Simon writes "We've all seen them, those icons that decorate blogs and websites; sometimes they're just little orange squares with white stripes, while others say RSS or Atom. Many of us have heard of feeds and podcasts and aggregators. What are these things and where did they come from? Well, Dave Johnson, the author of the open source Roller blogging software, is glad you asked and by way of an answer, he's written RSS and Atom in Action." Read the rest of Simon's review.
RSS and Atom In Action is available at Amazon.com.
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We have stopped advertising the promotions of the weekly builds of Project GlassFish because is was extra work and there already was a perfectly useful mechanism: the project Announcements. So, if you want to find out about weekly builds, point your RSS reader to the Announcement Feed. |
If you don't want or don't have an RSS reader, check the HTML version. The feed also shows in the front page of the GlassFish Community Wiki and we probably should inject it, via Feedburner as a side bar into TheAquarium and the project home page.
We will continue to announce the Milestone builds as they are important announcements and we want to encourage their use for Continuous Improvements. Stay tuned for GF V2 Milestone 2, we are currently in feature freeze and the plan is for a release in two weeks.
