It's probably not possible to integrate Roller into an existing webapp without significant code changes to Roller (and your existing app). If you go that route, please report back and let us know how it goes -- maybe there are some simple things we can do to make such integration easier or at least possible.
As Olav suggested, one solution is to use SSO to allow your users to be logged into both applications at once. There's also an Admin API web service, which your application could use to provision Roller user accounts and blogs for each of your users. Another solution would be to create a "blog this" capability within your app that allows your users to post a blog entry to the weblog server of their choice (via MetaWeblog API) -- as Flickr.com and other sites do. Roller supports the MetaWeblog API and you can create a MetaWeblog API using Apache XML-RPC and/or the Blog Client code from the Blogapps project (http://blogapps.dev.java.net). - Dave On 12/18/06, Williams, Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello! I have an existing website (Debian Linux/Apache/Tomcat/MySQL) to which I would like to add blogging capability. Since you see this message, you may infer that I'm (very) interested in roller. This site has users log in and sets up an area for groups of users that may be members of an organization (like the "chess club") or just have common interests. I'd like to put a link on their page that goes to a roller blog that they have control over (they can make it public, private, allow anyone to post or restrict posting, etc.). Are there any guidelines, or can someone point me to a place that shows me how to do this (i. e., to integrate roller into an existing webapp)? Presuming what I want to do can be done, of course (but, I have faith;=) Thanks, and Regards, anw
