Go Green Pebble

A lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool

Pebble is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool. It's small, fast and feature-rich with unrivalled ease of installation and use. Blog content is stored as XML files on disk and served up dynamically, so there's no need to install a database. All maintenance and administration can be performed through your web browser, making Pebble ideal for anybody who is constantly on the move or doesn't have direct access to their host.

Features

Content

Posting and management of content through your web browser, including rich text editor support.

Blogger and MetaWeblog API interface included for posting content via compatible tools.

Categorisation of content into multiple hierarchical categories.

Tagging of content and a generation of a tagcloud.

RSS enclosures for distributing files or podcasting.

Simple content publication workflow.

Pinging websites via XML-RPC when new blog entries are added.

Publication of static content alongside your blog entries.

Link to your favorite social bookmarking site.

Reader responses

Reader responses, in the form of threaded comments and MovableType TrackBacks.

E-mail notifications when new responses are received.

Pluggable moderation, spam detection and CAPTCHA support.

Bulk response management features to approve/reject/remove comments and TrackBacks.
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Web-based Adminstration

Management of your blog via a web browser.

File management and the ability to upload arbitary files and images.

Capture of blog referers, requests and logs for viewing or export.

Customizable regex based referer filters to combat referer spam.

Integrated help and documentation.
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Team, project, multi-user blogs and security

Multiple people can contribute to a single blog.

Host more than a single blog for a project, group or community.

Integrate Pebble with your existing security infrastructure (e.g. LDAP, Active Directory, RDBMS, etc).

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Navigation

View blog entries by permalink, day or month.

Navigate through your blog entries in several ways, including a locale-aware calendar control.

Text based and advanced searching.
SMS

Newsfeeds

RSS 2.0, RDF and Atom 1.0 feeds for blog entries and responses.

Category and tag specific newsfeeds.

Syndicate external newsfeeds.

E-maili18n

Content in international character sets such as UTF-8,Publication of content aligned with your timezone, regardless of where your host is based, Locale sensitive delivery of dates, times and numbers.

Discussion ForumMultilingual

Supports major international languages including Hindi like:

Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Russian

BlogPlugin APIs

Permalink Providers let you customize the format of your permalinks, Content Decorators let you customize how blog entries are displayed.