Organizations are increasingly using blogs as a means of more effectively communicating with their customers and ecosystem. Consequently, for the enterprise, blog technology is rapidly becoming an important and essential piece of their infrastructure.

Apache Roller is a full-featured, multi-user and group-blog server from the Apache Software Foundation suitable for blog sites large and small. Roller is a stable and production-ready blog server that powers external and internal blogs, including the Covalent blog, Sun Microsystem's blogs.sun.com blogging site, IBM DeveloperWorks blogs, the Javalobby's 10,000 user strong JRoller Java community site, and hundreds of other blogs world-wide. Roller graduated from the Apache Incubator in March 2007 and is now an official Apache project.

Roller is a Java Web application that is run on any Java EE server and any relational database. Some of Roller's key features include:

• Multi-user blogging: can support tens of thousands of users and blogs
• Group blogging with three permisson levels (editor, author and limited)
• Support for comment moderation and comment spam prevention measures
• Bloggers have complete control over blog layout/style via templates
• Built-in search engine indexes weblog entry content
• Pluggable cache and rendering system
• Support for blog clients that support MetaWeblog API
• All blogs have entry and comment feeds in both RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 formats

Covalent currently provides commercial support for the following native versions of Apache Roller:

      Apache Roller 3.0/3.1

Full commercial production-level technical support and professional services for Apache Roller are available for current and new Covalent customers.

For more information contact Covalent Technologies at 925/974-8800 or 800/444-1935 or via email at sales@covalent.com. On-site training for development available upon request. Architectural and migration consulting services around Roller also offered.