Overview of the Blog Portlet

Blog portlet allows portal users to manage weblog posts from a portal page. Users can create, edit, and delete weblog entries. Additionally, this portlet provides a simplified interface for creating weblogs and weblog user accounts.

Blog portlet is a client of an existing weblog server; it is not a weblog server, or service itself. Specifically, it requires Roller Weblogger version 3.1. The Portal Server software installer does not handle the Roller installation. See Installing Roller for more information.

Blog portlet utilizes the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP) for managing weblog posts. APP is the only standard protocol for weblog post management. In Roller, APP support is new and incomplete. Support for weblog servers other than Roller is not planned for this release of the Blog portlet.

Blog portlet also includes limited management of weblog server resources. It allows users to create weblog server user accounts and weblogs, utilizing the Atom Admin Publishing Protocol (AAPP).

This document is not a primer on weblogs, the APP and AAPP protocols, Roller, or Sun Java System Portal Server software. It is assumed that the reader understands these concepts and technologies.