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Posted to user@roller.apache.org by Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org> on 2014/11/12 15:26:37 UTC
How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
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Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
Hello:
I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
JRoller support this use case?
User Story:
As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a weblog
that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
weblog and provide comments as feedback.
Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
Thanks
Lee
Re: How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
Posted by Glen Mazza <gl...@gmail.com>.
I think you are overestimating the complexity of altering the Roller
look and feel to match that of the business application (just go to the
templates page within the Roller admin and edit your CSS and fonts, etc.
to whatever the business app has), and as a result choosing a more
complex approach (RSS or Atom) that will require you to implement a full
blogging UI from scratch--including all the CSS stuff that you're
supposedly saving by not altering Roller directly.
If you can task the front-end person (may be you :) who created the
corporate website to just alter the Roller blog theme to match it
(presumably the same front-end person who would be making the new blog
UI you're proposing anyway), he/she may be able to make it identical.
Just check all the Roller blogs
(https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ROLLER/PoweredByRoller --
Banque de Luxembourg might be a good example) and themes
(https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/roller-extras/wiki/Themes),
Roller can be morphed to look like just about anything. With a few hours
of CSS work you blog may look 80-90% similar as your corporate site,
from there you can inch up to 100% as you have time available.
As for your second concern, again, by altering the templates, you
welcome to create whatever static links you wish to link back to the
main corporate website. Some more Roller tips:
https://web-gmazza.rhcloud.com/blog/entry/apache-roller-blogging. Also,
the Roller documentation available from the home page has a Template
Guide to show how you can change the behavior of your blog if desired.
But if you want to start from scratch, probably reading the Roller Atom
or RSS feed and looking at the Roller source code for how to implement
commenting (or just use Disqus and skip Roller commenting) would be the
way to go.
Glen
On 11/13/2014 07:45 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
> Glen:
>
> Here is what I'm looking to achieve. I support a java web application
> for a business. They want a blog built into their application. Roller
> has everything I need regarding functionality and data. I need a way to
> be able to integrate Roller into this web application in two ways: one,
> the look and feel of the blog has to be the same as the business web
> application, and two: the web application will link to Roller and when
> the user is done with the blog, the user can easily return to the web
> application. It would be like like the user never left the business web app.
>
> I am not familiar with RSS but I could easily get up to speed. Are you
> referring to the possible use of RSS to do this?
> I assume an RSS instance could be written to include any of the model
> elements in Roller? I assume I could write the RSS to meet my requirements.
> Can I think of RSS as a view of the data? So I might have more than one
> RSS feed? So for example, there might be one RSS (view) for the current
> log entry and their might be another RSS (view) for showing the blog's
> archives?
>
> How would this work? So the business web app would call a URL for the
> RSS feed that it wants. The app would then parse the RSS and populate a
> blog page in the business web site, using CSS consistent with site?
>
> The authoring of the blog would all be done in the Roller application.
> The business appl is reading the blog information and displaying it. The
> business appl will also need to be able to comment on the blog. Not
> sure how this would work with RSS? I seem to recall that Roller has
> some functionality that will support this requirement.
>
> It's dark in here....Any light you can shed on this subject will be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Lee
>
>
>
> On 11/13/2014 06:19 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>> I wonder why exposing your Roller blog directly to the public so they
>> can "read the weblog and provide comments as feedback" would not work
>> in your situation. You have extensive templating capability in Roller
>> to make the blog look as you wish.
>>
>> Glen
>>
>> On 11/13/2014 07:03 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>>> Thank you for your reply Glen. I am referring to Apache Roller.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/12/2014 09:01 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>>>> You mean JRoller, the deprecated blogging service that uses Roller, or
>>>> Apache Roller, the blogging software you install and blog with?
>>>>
>>>> If the former, normally you can read the RSS / Atom feeds (although
>>>> JRoller is old so probably just RSS) and do what you want with them.
>>>> Google about parsing RSS once you're there.
>>>>
>>>> If Roller, well Roller is the web application that displays your blogs
>>>> as you want to display them. But you can probably use Atom/RSS again
>>>> to get the articles if you want to format it elsewhere.
>>>>
>>>> Glen
>>>>
>>>> On 11/12/2014 09:26 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>>> Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
>>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
>>>>> From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
>>>>> To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello:
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
>>>>> JRoller support this use case?
>>>>>
>>>>> User Story:
>>>>>
>>>>> As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a
>>>>> weblog
>>>>> that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
>>>>> external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
>>>>> weblog and provide comments as feedback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Lee
>>>>>
>>>>>
Re: How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
Posted by Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>.
Glen:
Here is what I'm looking to achieve. I support a java web application
for a business. They want a blog built into their application. Roller
has everything I need regarding functionality and data. I need a way to
be able to integrate Roller into this web application in two ways: one,
the look and feel of the blog has to be the same as the business web
application, and two: the web application will link to Roller and when
the user is done with the blog, the user can easily return to the web
application. It would be like like the user never left the business web app.
I am not familiar with RSS but I could easily get up to speed. Are you
referring to the possible use of RSS to do this?
I assume an RSS instance could be written to include any of the model
elements in Roller? I assume I could write the RSS to meet my requirements.
Can I think of RSS as a view of the data? So I might have more than one
RSS feed? So for example, there might be one RSS (view) for the current
log entry and their might be another RSS (view) for showing the blog's
archives?
How would this work? So the business web app would call a URL for the
RSS feed that it wants. The app would then parse the RSS and populate a
blog page in the business web site, using CSS consistent with site?
The authoring of the blog would all be done in the Roller application.
The business appl is reading the blog information and displaying it. The
business appl will also need to be able to comment on the blog. Not
sure how this would work with RSS? I seem to recall that Roller has
some functionality that will support this requirement.
It's dark in here....Any light you can shed on this subject will be
greatly appreciated.
Lee
On 11/13/2014 06:19 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
> I wonder why exposing your Roller blog directly to the public so they
> can "read the weblog and provide comments as feedback" would not work
> in your situation. You have extensive templating capability in Roller
> to make the blog look as you wish.
>
> Glen
>
> On 11/13/2014 07:03 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>> Thank you for your reply Glen. I am referring to Apache Roller.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>> On 11/12/2014 09:01 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>>> You mean JRoller, the deprecated blogging service that uses Roller, or
>>> Apache Roller, the blogging software you install and blog with?
>>>
>>> If the former, normally you can read the RSS / Atom feeds (although
>>> JRoller is old so probably just RSS) and do what you want with them.
>>> Google about parsing RSS once you're there.
>>>
>>> If Roller, well Roller is the web application that displays your blogs
>>> as you want to display them. But you can probably use Atom/RSS again
>>> to get the articles if you want to format it elsewhere.
>>>
>>> Glen
>>>
>>> On 11/12/2014 09:26 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
>>>> From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
>>>> To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello:
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
>>>> JRoller support this use case?
>>>>
>>>> User Story:
>>>>
>>>> As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a
>>>> weblog
>>>> that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
>>>> external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
>>>> weblog and provide comments as feedback.
>>>>
>>>> Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Lee
>>>>
>>>>
>
Re: How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
Posted by Glen Mazza <gl...@gmail.com>.
I wonder why exposing your Roller blog directly to the public so they
can "read the weblog and provide comments as feedback" would not work in
your situation. You have extensive templating capability in Roller to
make the blog look as you wish.
Glen
On 11/13/2014 07:03 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Glen. I am referring to Apache Roller.
>
> Lee
>
>
> On 11/12/2014 09:01 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
>> You mean JRoller, the deprecated blogging service that uses Roller, or
>> Apache Roller, the blogging software you install and blog with?
>>
>> If the former, normally you can read the RSS / Atom feeds (although
>> JRoller is old so probably just RSS) and do what you want with them.
>> Google about parsing RSS once you're there.
>>
>> If Roller, well Roller is the web application that displays your blogs
>> as you want to display them. But you can probably use Atom/RSS again
>> to get the articles if you want to format it elsewhere.
>>
>> Glen
>>
>> On 11/12/2014 09:26 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>>>
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
>>> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
>>> From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
>>> To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello:
>>>
>>> I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
>>> JRoller support this use case?
>>>
>>> User Story:
>>>
>>> As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a weblog
>>> that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
>>> external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
>>> weblog and provide comments as feedback.
>>>
>>> Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Lee
>>>
>>>
Re: How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
Posted by Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>.
Thank you for your reply Glen. I am referring to Apache Roller.
Lee
On 11/12/2014 09:01 PM, Glen Mazza wrote:
> You mean JRoller, the deprecated blogging service that uses Roller, or
> Apache Roller, the blogging software you install and blog with?
>
> If the former, normally you can read the RSS / Atom feeds (although
> JRoller is old so probably just RSS) and do what you want with them.
> Google about parsing RSS once you're there.
>
> If Roller, well Roller is the web application that displays your blogs
> as you want to display them. But you can probably use Atom/RSS again
> to get the articles if you want to format it elsewhere.
>
> Glen
>
> On 11/12/2014 09:26 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
>> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
>> From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
>> To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
>> JRoller support this use case?
>>
>> User Story:
>>
>> As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a weblog
>> that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
>> external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
>> weblog and provide comments as feedback.
>>
>> Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Lee
>>
>>
>
Re: How to access JRoller weblogs from another web application
Posted by Glen Mazza <gl...@gmail.com>.
You mean JRoller, the deprecated blogging service that uses Roller, or
Apache Roller, the blogging software you install and blog with?
If the former, normally you can read the RSS / Atom feeds (although
JRoller is old so probably just RSS) and do what you want with them.
Google about parsing RSS once you're there.
If Roller, well Roller is the web application that displays your blogs
as you want to display them. But you can probably use Atom/RSS again to
get the articles if you want to format it elsewhere.
Glen
On 11/12/2014 09:26 AM, Lee Chalupa wrote:
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: How to access JRoller weblogs from another website
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:08:50 -0600
> From: Lee Chalupa <lc...@seelink.org>
> To: user-subscribe@roller.apache.org
>
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I'm trying to implement the following user story using JRoller. Can
> JRoller support this use case?
>
> User Story:
>
> As the author of a weblog, I would like to read the content of a weblog
> that is created in JRoller and publish the entries on a webpage on an
> external customer-facing web site so customers are able to read the
> weblog and provide comments as feedback.
>
> Can you provide a high-level description of how I would go about this.
>
> Thanks
>
> Lee
>
>