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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:

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.


This server is powered by djbdns, apache, qmail, and ezmlm with ezmlm-idx. The operating system is Debian GNU/Linux.