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Roller was originally written by DaveJohnson as an example application for an article on open source Java development tools. The article, titled Building an Open Source J2EE Weblogger, was published on O'Reilly's Java.com site in April, 2002. Roller became an Apache Project in 2007 and is now developed and maintained (in alphabetical order of first name) by AllenGilliland, AnilGangolli, CraigRussell, DaveJohnson, EliasTorres, HenriYandell, JeffBlattman GlenMazza and MattRaible.

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How is Roller licensed?

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How do I start my own weblog?

The easiest way to start your own Roller based weblog is to set up an account on the Javalobby's JRoller site. Then read the Roller UserGuide to get started with RollerRead the Roller Install Guide to learn how to install Roller and the User Guide to learn how to use it.

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How do I download and install Roller on my server?

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Does Roller have an IRC channel?

Yes it does, but it's pretty quiet. There is a #roller channel on the irc.freenode.net IRC network. If you have Mozilla, you can reach the channel via this URL: *irc://irc.freenode.net*

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