Roller

Roller is an open source blog server best known for powering heavily used corporate blog sites. Features include group blogging, newsfeeds, rich-text editing, customizable page templates, comments, trackbacks, referrers, and more.


Homepage: www.rollerweblogger.org

Apache Roller is the open source Java blog server that drives Sun Microsystem's blogs.sun.com employee blogging site, the US Government's blog.usa.gov, the blogs in IBM's Lotus Connections product, the IBM Developer Works blogs, the Javalobby's 10,000 user strong JRoller Java community site and hundreds of other blogs world-wide. If you want to set up a blog server for yourself or for several thousand of your closest friends, try Roller!

Roller supports all of the latest-and-greatest weblogging features such as group blogging, RSS and Atom newsfeeds, rich-text editing, customizable page templates, comments, trackbacks, referrers, blogroll management and provides Atom Publishing Protocol and XML-RPC interfaces for blogging clients.

Apache Roller is a Java-based Open Source "full-featured, Multi-blog, Multi-user, and group-blog server suitable for blog sites large and small".Roller was originally written by Dave Johnson in 2002 for a magazine article on open source development tools, but became popular at FreeRoller.net (now JRoller.com) and was later chosen to drive the employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and IBM developerWorks blogs.