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Sunday Oct 05, 2003

Blojsom vs. Roller.

Comments[10] by Dave in Roller

I just received an email that asked the question "could you please tell me the differences between Blojsom and Roller Weblogger? Which one is better or what could you tell me about these both projects?" Below is my reply.

I think the main advantages that Roller has over Blojsom are full multi-user support and a web-based UI for editing blogs, managing bookmarks, configuring blogs/themes, and for configuring the system. Blojsom doesn't have an extensive web-based UI like Roller's. The main disadvantage of Roller is that it requires a database and this requirement makes installation and maintenance a little more difficult. If you are going to build a community site like ruckyou.com or jroller.com, then Roller seems like the obvious choice. For comparison: the Roller Installation Guide and User Guide.

The main advantages that Blogsom has over Roller are that it is small, easy to setup, has an extensible architecture with excellent support for plugins. One example: with Roller, your page templates must use Velocity macros. With Blojsom, there are a number of plugin options for page templates. If you are going to run a single user blog, you don't want the hassles of setting up a database, and you are happy without a web UI for managing your blog, then Blojsom seems like the obvious choice. For comparison: the Blojsom Installation/User Guide

If you looking for a good blogging tool, you might want to widen your search. Is there a reason that you are looking only at Java-based blogging software? If you are a Java programmer and you want to be able to customize your blogging software or contribute to it's development then Roller or Blojsom are good choices. If you are techically saavy, you want to setup you own bogging software on your ISP's site, and you don't care what language was used to write the blogging software, then expand your search to include other choices like MovableType. If you don't want the hassles of setting up your own blogging software then look at JRoller, Blogger, Typepad, or one of the other blogging services.

Fighting weblog comment spam.

Comments[0] by Dave in Blogging

Jeremy Zawodny discusses the options for fighting weblog comment spam. Right now, my only weapon is seek and destroy enabled by select w.title,w.pubtime from comment as c,weblogentry as w where c.entryid=w.id and c.content like '%viagra%'.

Hibernate and JDO.

Comments[2] by Dave in Java

Werner Ramaeker speculates that Hibernate will become JDO 2.0 compliant.

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