I think this may have been bounced because I initially sent it from an address not subscribed to this list. Apologies if it arrives twice.
I want to describe the one customization I have applied to Roller, and ask if there's a better way to accomplish it, either in 3.1 or 4.0. The "anchor" generated for blog posts (which appears in the url) is not to my liking. I don't want extra words stripped out, I want dashes rather than underscores (widely regarded as preferable for Google SEO), and I'd like to apply some special rules (e.g. replace ampersand with the word 'and'). Basically I want better-looking URLs. To accomplish this, I modified org.apache.roller.pojos.WeblogEntryData.createAnchorBase to do things my way, and patched roller-business.jar. It's an embarassing hack. I think I tried using a patch jar and ran into classloader security problems, but it's been a little while. I think maybe I could fix that if I put my patch jar in a dark place it doesn't belong. Anyway, in an ideal world I'd like to compile a single subclass against the Roller jars, run a patch jar over the release build, and make a single configuration change to tell Roller to use my new class. Scratch that. In an ideal world I'd like something as arbitrary as createAnchorBase to be explicitly implemented as a customization point. Any thoughts?
