I'm looking to set up a weblog and I have a particular interest in tracking when comments are made and who makes them. Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) claims to provide "Comment Listeners" that "let you write Java code that is called when comments are added, removed, approved and rejected." Ideally, this is what I'm looking for (provided the listener is handed the pertinent information about the comment, in my case, who made the comment and what blog entry the comment was for).
For my weblog, I'd prefer to use Roller because it is an Apache project, it's well-documented, etc. So I'm wondering if Roller provides any functionality similar to what Pebble claims to provide. If not, I'm open to considering alternatives that might duplicate the functionality I desire. The first possibility I notice is Roller provides the ability to set up email notifications for comments. It wasn't clear to me though exactly how this is set up. If I set up my own Roller server, how do I configure it to turn on email notifications. Furthermore, will the emails give me the information I want (again, who made the comment and what blog entry the comment was for)? The next possibility might be to use a pull operation (as opposed to the above options which would provide push functionality). Roller supports the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs and also provides some level of support for the Atom API. From what I can tell, the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs don't have a notion of comments. Is this accurate? Also, from what I can tell, though Atom does have a notion of comments, the Roller implementation of it does not. Is this accurate? If I'm wrong on either of these points, then I think I could retrieve all the comments for each weblog entry and diff the results against my local data model. It wouldn't be ideal but it wouldn't be too ugly either. Thanks in advance for any help. David -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Executing-custom-Java-code-when-comments-are-added-to-a-weblog-entry-tf3909636s12275.html#a11085463 Sent from the Roller - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
