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• Roller prompts user for configuration parameters, does all setup
  • Creating JNDI data-source and mail-session if needed
  • Or creating property file for non-JNDI based installation
• Roller can create/upgrade tables as needed
• Pros:
  • Easy UI driven installation
  • Does everything!
• Cons:
  • Need to develop separate logic for each Servlet container / app server
  • May be difficult or impossible for some servers
  • May require application server jars in Roller's WEB-INF/lib directory

What's the consensus?

Consensus on the Roller dev list is seems to be that option #1 is a must have, #2 and #3 are nice to have and #4 is too complex.

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