Comments on: Sad State of Affair in Java & .NET blog server software

By: Flora

Flora — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:53:50 +0000

Have you ever a chance get Roller working with Oracle and then document the procedures to get Roller working under WebLogic and Oracle?

I tested Pebble on Weblogic 8.1 but get exceptions on the first page.

By: james governor

james governor — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 09:00:59 +0000

so are you heavily overlicensed? i can’t really understand why you want to drive workloads to Oracle and WebLogic, not exactly the cheapest software on the block, when they already have MySQL and, what, Tomcat, skills, given that your original intention was to avoid using a project portal. I mean, do you want to go more lightweight or not? I feel like i am misunderstanding something.

you say the oracle machines are actively monitored. Are you the DBA?

By: Simon Brown

Simon Brown — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:54:42 +0000

I know where Dave is coming from – ensuring compatibility across multiple application servers is a time consuming task. That said, I’m fairly confident that Pebble supports the main servers (http://pebble.sourceforge.net/weblog/installation.html), with the exception of Orion. The problem is retesting everything after each release on multiple versions of multiple application servers. Automated functional tests are one way around this though. If you do give Pebble a go, please feel free to get in touch and let me know your feedback, even if you decide against it.

By: Dave Johnson

Dave Johnson — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:40:46 +0000

Roller is not a commercial product with a revenue stream, so it’s difficult to justify the added expense of supporting lots of application servers and databases.

As you said, Roller uses Hibernate and should therefore work with any JDBC capable database, but somebody has to write the installation guides and answer the tech support database questions for each platform — if you’d like to volunteer to do that for Weblogic/Orable, we’d love it!

And, if you do get Roller working on Weblog and Oracle please submut patches to the dev-list so that others don’t have to suffer through the porting process too.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:39:55 +0000

I know exactly where you are coming from. I recently blogged about this here after I gave up on Roller and went to Wordpress. I would like to be able to stay with a Java based blogging platform, but its just not worth it with platforms like Typo and Wordpress out there. I think Typo is rising very quickly as a major blogging engine, but it will take some time and a lot of community support for it to really rival Wordpress.

By: Mikkel Heisterberg

Mikkel Heisterberg — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:33:27 +0000

Go with Pebble – written in Java and very easy to configure and deploy.

By: David Czarnecki

David Czarnecki — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:30:14 +0000

Well, if you do decide to take a look at blojsom, let me know. Also, here’s a pointer to the available plugins, http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/Available+Plugins for your reference. Take care.