Infodancer Weblog

Blogging -- that is, a kind of public, online journal -- has exploded over the web, becoming immensely popular in a fairly short time. There is a lot of software available to host a weblog, but very little (read: nothing at all) to host a weblog using JSP/Servlet technology... so I wrote something. You can view the code in action at any of the following sites:

• triggerfinger.org
• matthew.infodancer.org
• speculativefiction.org

Features:

• Read and post permissions based on configurable user roles
• Configurable email notifications of new posts
• Optimized for search engines
• CSS-based formatting
• Trackback support
• Ping support for notifying metablogs
• RSS and Atom feeds
• Dynamic categorization of articles into multiple, heirarchal groups

The system uses a database backend through JDBC and the JDBC Objects library. I've run it successfully on MySQL, with only a few queries using non-standard SQL.

The latest version is available through subversion via this url: svn://infodancer.org/weblog/trunk

If you'd like to host a blog using this software, but aren't sufficiently technical to set it up yourself, email me. I'm considering setting up a blog hosting service with this software.