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Apache Roller - open source Java blog server - Apache Roller


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Apache Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small. This is the project's homepage, which provides a brief overview of the software and project as well as links to project news, downloads, user documentation, install guide, mailing-lists, bug tracker, wiki and the FAQ. Overview

Roller is a Java web application that should be able to run on any Java EE server and any relational database. Currently, Roller is best supported on Tomcat and MySQL -- but users have reported success running Roller on Glassfish, Websphere, JBoss, Resin, Geronimo, Derby, PostgresSQL, Oracle, etc.)

Here are some of Roller's key features:

* Multi-user blogging: can support tens of thousands of users and blogs
* Group blogging with three permisson levels (editor, author and limited)
* Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures
* Bloggers have complete control over blog layout/style via templates
* Built-in search engine indexes weblog entry content
* Pluggable cache and rendering system
* Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API
* All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats

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