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Apache Roller

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 and was later chosen to drive the employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and IBM developerWorks blogs.

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Apache Roller
DeveloperApache Software Foundation
Stable release
6.1.21 / 2023-07-30[±]
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWeblog server
LicenseApache License 2.02
Websiteroller.apache.org
RepositoryRoller Repository

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".3 Roller was originally written by Dave Johnson in 2002 for a magazine article on open source development tools,4 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.2

On April 23, 2007, Roller project graduated from incubator, so it became an official project of the Apache Software Foundation and it was released 3.1 version, first official release.5

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References

  1. "apache / roller". github.com. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  2. http://www.ohloh.net/p/roller Archived 2012-01-11 at the Wayback Machine OhLoh Apache Roller Summary information page at Ohloh
  3. http://roller.apache.org/ Apache Roller official website
  4. "Radar - O'Reilly".
  5. "Apache News Online, 23 april 2007 - Announcing project graduation and new Apache Roller 3.1 release". Apache News. 2007-04-23. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
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