Pebble

A lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool
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  • Rating:
  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Simon Brown
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.simonbrown.je/blog/
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X
  • File Size:
  • 32.1 MB

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Pebble Description

A lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool Pebble is open source, free, small, fast and feature-rich with unrivalled ease of installation and use. Blog content is stored as XML files on disk and served up dynamically, so there's no need to install a database. All maintenance and administration can be performed through your web browser, making Pebble ideal for anybody who is constantly on the move or doesn't have direct access to their host. Here are some key features of "Pebble": Content: · Posting and management of content through your web browser, including rich text editor support. · Blogger and MetaWeblog API interface included for posting content via compatible tools. · Categorisation of content into multiple hierarchical categories. · Tagging of content and a generation of a tagcloud. · RSS enclosures for distributing files or podcasting. · Simple content publication workflow. · Pinging websites via XML-RPC when new blog entries are added. · Publication of static content alongside your blog entries. · Link to your favorite social bookmarking site Reader responses: · Reader responses, in the form of threaded comments and MovableType TrackBacks. · E-mail notifications when new responses are received. · Pluggable moderation, spam detection and CAPTCHA support. · Bulk response management features to approve/reject/remove comments and TrackBacks. Web-based Adminstration: · Management of your blog via a web browser. · File management and the ability to upload arbitary files and images. · Capture of blog referers, requests and logs for viewing or export. · Customizable regex based referer filters to combat referer spam. · Integrated help and documentation. Newsfeeds: · RSS 2.0, RDF and Atom 1.0 feeds for blog entries and responses. · Category and tag specific newsfeeds. · Syndicate external newsfeeds. Navigation: · View blog entries by permalink, day or month. · Navigate through your blog entries in several ways, including a locale-aware calendar control. · Text based and advanced searching. · Team, project, multi-user blogs and security · Multiple people can contribute to a single blog. · Host more than a single blog for a project, group or community. · Integrate Pebble with your existing security infrastructure (e.g. LDAP, Active Directory, RDBMS, etc). i18n: · Content in international character sets such as UTF-8. · Publication of content aligned with your timezone, regardless of where your host is based. · Locale sensitive delivery of dates, times and numbers. · Translated public-facing text (and partially to the admin interface) provides a consistent user experience in a single language Plugin APIs: · Permalink Providers let you customize the format of your permalinks. · Content Decorators let you customize how blog entries are displayed. · Blog Listeners let you write Java code that is called when your blog starts up and shuts down. · Blog Entry Listeners let you write Java code that is called when blog entries are added, removed, published and unpublished. · Comment Listeners let you write Java code that is called when comments are added, removed, approved and rejected. · TrackBack Listeners let you write Java code that is called when TrackBacks are added, removed, approved and rejected. · Confirmation Strategies let you plugin different strategies for readers to confirm their comments/TrackBacks, such as CAPTCHAs. Requirements: · Java 5.0 or later · A JSP 2.0/Servlet 2.4 compatible web/application server such as Apache Tomcat 5.5.x What's New in This Release: · Updated dutch translation (Ger-Jan te Dorsthorst) · Updated russian translation (by Alexander Zagniotov) · New slovak translation (Peter Miklosko) · Fixed MetaWeblogAPIHandler to handle comments without mail or website (Wyatt) · Updated spanish and new spanish (spain) translation (Antonio Santos Izaguirre) · started polish translation (Sylvain Balbous) · Updated portuguese translation (Eduardo Ramalho) · Updated norwegian translation (Tor Helland) · Updated french translation (Sylvain Balbous) · fixed XSS issues with referrer log (James Roper) · Sourceforge-SCP-Uploads now use ${sourceforge.username},pebble@web.sf.net in build.xml (Olaf Kock) - remaining permissions-issues when different people are uploading · Fixed xss issues with comments and info-messages (Olaf Kock) · Added Search API for XML-RPC (Seymour Cakes) · Fix image upload bug (first character was silently dropped) (James Manger) · This version doesn't require JavaMail on the classpath and will ignore (but log) NoClassDefFoundErrors relating to JavaMail · fixed "Atom Feed NPE" (Christian Fochler) · JavaMail routines are used for validating mail addresses instead of homegrown solution (Frank Behrens) · RelatedPostsDecorator with links to similarly tagged articles (Alexander Zagniotov) · SocialBookmarksDecorator with links to popular social bookmarking sites (Alexander Zagniotov) · JUnit tests run with reliable language setting (english) · Improved MovableTypeImporter (by Yusuke Yamamoto) · Improved russian localization (by Alexander Zagniotov) · Improved amount of localizeable content (with german translations) (Olaf Kock) · Added mongolian localization (provided by Enkhbat Dash) · Play nicer when delivering secured pages through https (Olaf Kock) · Added pessimistic locking strategy for static pages, to prevent concurrent updates. · Static page persistence now uses JAXB 2.0 instead of custom XML handling code. · Category persistence now uses JAXB 2.0 instead of custom XML handling code. · When replying to a specific comment, that comment is now shown above the comment form. · Tags can now include spaces (specify this with the + character when entering the tag). · Enhanced HTML meta tags (keywords and description) for blog entry and static page permalinked pages. · Added a name parameter to the tag so that the name/title can be overidden. · Upgraded Acegi Security for Spring to version 1.0.6 (to fix a bug with remember me not working).


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