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Roller's install process has always been a sore point so in 4.0 we've done the work to make installation really easy ROL-1448. Assuming you have 've already setup Java and your Servlet container, all you have to do to setup for Roller is to create one small little settings file and deploy the Roller WAR. There's no need to setup a JNDI data-source or mail-session (unless you want to) and there's no need to create tables. And Plus, there's no need to download Hibernate separately because Roller no longer needs Hibernate.

On startup Roller will test your database connection and give you detailed error messages if it fails, then . Roller will automatically setup tables for you and you'll be up and running in minutes.

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