> It's my impression that JSPWiki's blog features are somewhat limited.
Your impression is quite correct. Does it support group blogging with admin, author and limited roles? Yes, kind of. But unfortunately, this would be a very manual task to manage. Can bloggers control their own templates at runtime? Yes, but it's not exactly designed to do it, so this would be pretty clunky. Does it scale to > thousands of blogs? I have no idea. I know it scales to thousands of pages, but the way that the weblog plugin is implemented means that it probably does not scale to thousands of blogs with thousands of *entries*. This is because I have implemented the weblog functionality mostly for my personal use at the moment, and have not paid attention to massive scaling issues. I have a hunch that JSPWiki will drop the gloves and go home at somewhere around 100,000 pages... Blogs create a lot of pages real fast. JSPWiki. Roller can be integrated with an external JSPWiki: you can > use JSPWiki syntax to compose your Roller blog entries and any wiki- > words that you use will point into your wiki. Yup, this is pretty cool, methinks ;-) > Janne: do you have an opinion on this topic? You run your personal > blog on JSPWiki. Am I underestimating the blog features of JSPWiki? I have confidence in JSPWiki as a wiki. But I have never really thought of it as a blog platform. I see no fundamental reason why the weblog functionality could not be rewritten to be a fully scalable blog platform, but as it currently stands, I wouldn't deploy it in a big enterprise scale. But it might work for SMEs. Probably. It's certainly okay as a personal blog platform, even if it does not have all the whizz-bangs of Wordpress or Roller. If only I had someone I could send bug reports to... ;-) The big issue I see is not technical. Wikis and blogs are fundamentally, technically very similar. The real problem is that a blog platform needs to be a lot friendlier than what JSPWiki is right now. This means a lot of UI work, custom JSPs (or plugins) to facilitate nothing but blogging purposes, rethinking URL schemes, bringing trackbacks and that sort of stuff. You know, you've written a blog engine ;-) If anyone wants to start and help me out with this task, that would be great! (said he, with a coffee mug in his hand.) It's not really a priority for me personally right now. /Janne
