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Roller Developer's Resources

This page offers a list of guides, howtos, and other resources to help developers who are working on the Roller source code.

Development Guides

How to contribute to Roller Explains how to contribute, what a committer is, etc. Read this if you want to figure out how to get your changes into Roller or if you'd interested in helping out with any other aspects of Roller.

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Struts2 Migration Guide Information about the Struts1 -> Struts2 migration work that we did for the Roller 4.0 release. Useful for those trying to understand how Roller's Struts2 actions work.

Related presentations

ApacheCon EU 2008 (1.2MB PDF) - Covers advanced Roller topics including: Advanced installation, Page and feed caching, Authentication options, Deployment architecture, Caching with Memcached, Scripting and automation and Plugging in new functionality.

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ApacheCon 2006 - Apache Roller: an open source Java blog server (1.3mb PDF)
Roller is the open source Java blog server that drives the popular Sun's employee blogs at blogs.sun.com, IBM developerWorks blogs, JRoller.com and numerous other blog sites. Currently making its way through the Apache incubation process, Roller is built on a host of Apache technologies including Struts, Velocity, Lucene, Jakarta Commons, XMLRPC and more. This overview, a primer for Roller users and contributors, covers the Roller feature set, the all-new Roller 3.0 page models/macros, Roller 3.0 architecture, lessons learned, project status and future plans.

Javadocs for Roller source

You can find a copy of the Roller 4.0 javadocs here:
http://people.apache.org/~snoopdave/apache-roller-4.0/javadocs/

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