Justin, I think you have the right idea. You would certainly need to write your own code for talking to the web service and getting any data that you wanted because Roller doesn't have any built-in facility to do something like that.
Currently the main page is just a jsp, so to add in the data from your web service you would just hack the jsp and make the calls to your code. -- Allen On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 17:15, Justin Grammens wrote: > Hello, > I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this > question, but am not able to find a solution from the > FAQ on the roller site. I have a 1.2 installation of > roller and I would like to include some xhtml data on > my roller hompeage from a web service located on a > completely separate website. How might anyone suggest > I look at doing this? I'm downloading the roller > source code and am guessing I would create my own > velocity macro and associated java class to make the > request and pull back the data for the presentation, > but was wondering if I was on the right track and if > anyone has done this before. Is there an easier way > with any of the existing roller macros? > Thanks for any pointers. I might look at upgrading to > Roller 2.x if that version has any helpers in this > regard. > Thanks, > Justin > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
