Blog engine for integration with a java application. What is the blog engine?

Question

I need to set up a blog engine that "needs to be integrated with a java application." These are my requirements, I'm not joking. A java application is a web application that supports very dynamically modified content.

What exactly the blog and this application will exchange - I do not know, because my client does not know. (yes, I know, my client ... but it is).

I think I have two options: the java blog engine and wordpress.

Wordpress is popular, stable, customizable, ... but in PHP. Java blogs are not popular, but in Java.

In a previous project, I used the .NET blog called dasBlog, it was not popular and was not easy to configure. I do not want to repeat this mistake.

If I can completely control the Wordpress blog (post posts, edit the contents of the sidebar, do Wordpress, ask me for the content for the sidebar, ...) via JAX-RPC or REST, and if it's simple, maybe I will choose Wordpress.

What do you think?

Answer 1

For wordpress-java integration, I found the following:

Quercus (runs PHP): http://wordpress.tv/2008/10/27/spreading-the-word-to-java-bring-wordpress-and-java-together-with-quercus-slides/

Java API for wordpress http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-java/ (This is my favorite, but I do not know how strong it is)

Java wordpress port: http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50890 (I don't like this)

Answer 2

It's not so unusual to combine a java application with a wordpress installation (I did this myself at least once). Just in front of you with apache by running php and wordpress, and your java application runs “behind” in its own context. The tricky parts if you need to exchange sessions and inputs.

Answer 3

you can also try apache-roller , this does not match the wordpress user interface. but he can do his job ...