Blogxter is now quite an old application - it was developed on NetKernel 1.0.  We are currently updating and modernised it to use the latest and greatest features of NetKernel 3.0.  Whilst this work is in progress Blogxter has been temporarily removed from the list of installable applications.

Watch this space for the updated version.

hi, looks like bloxter didn't make it into the 3.0 release. i happen to need a blog software and i wonder if bloxter is incompatible with netkernel 3.1 or if you just took it offline because it's not a good example of a "modern" use of netkernel (eg: "doesn't use XRL, so let's dump it!"). in the latter case i would be very thankfull if you could make the download available to me.

btw, the download is still linked frome here: http://www.1060.org/blogxter/publish/6

thanks,
thomas

Hi Thomas,

Sorry. Blogxter has been a low priority for us since we now ship this forum application as an in-depth example of a web application.  We still haven't had time to do a refresh on blogxter - a bit embarrassing since it would only take a couple of days to update.  The reason the front-end is a bit long in the tooth is that it uses XForms quite a lot and we've never been too happy with the need to have a stateful application for the server-side XForm engine - the  Chiba library is also relatively slow so the forms are not as snappy as an AJAX front-end would be.  The services module is still fine.

Anyway apart from the age it still works perfectly and has been our production blogging app for many years.  I've posted the current modules here...

http://1060.org/upload/blogxter/blogxter-services-1.0.7.jar
http://1060.org/upload/blogxter/blogxter-web-1.1.0.jar

You will need MySQL installed and will need to add a mysql jdbc driver to the modules/mod-db/lib directory.

If you install the modules with the module install wizard then after the cold restart you will get a link to the blogxter installer application in the services module - just fill in the DB settings and you're all set. You can also get to this as an entrypoint when you view the services module (control-panel->Module Deployment Report->Blogters-Services).

If you need any help with it just ask.

Cheers,

Peter

i'm just building my very first rdbms-backed project. it has to have a blog, a forum, a media-archive and a website with some cms - and, of course, has to be finished soon... i hope to get quite far with the modules you provide. thanks a lot for the fast response! (and stay tuned for more emergency calls... ;-)

Thomas,

Sounds like a great project!

We are here to help, please post any additional questions to the forum.

You might want to download and install NetKernel 3.2. Although we have not posted the announcement yet, it is available on the download page.

Randy

i saw the new release when i looked for the download but wasn't sure if it's already mature. as a newbie the last thing you want is getting caught by a bug when you have to act on the assumption that it's all your own fault. but i take your advice as a hint that you consider it stable.
btw: it seem to me like nk 3.2 does not use the new chiba 2.0 library with ajax support. is that right? do you have plans to do so?

thanks,
thomas

Thomas,

Good to be cautious!

NetKernel 3.2 is ready for use. We are very careful about our releases - each one is thoroughly tested and checked for memory leaks, performance, etc. We have already switched our production servers over to this release and we see no issues.

The new Chiba release you mention is not included in NetKernel 3.2. Is this a critical feature that you need?

Randy

no, i wouldn't call that critical, but "(very) nice to have". since pjr above mentioned the  lack of snapiness in the chiba-xforms-implementation that the old blogxter application uses, and since an ajax-ified chiba promises a much better user experience, i just thought that maybe ... ;-)
well, i'm on my first project and other things are certainly more critical to me right now (eg barely getting the whole thing on track) but in the perspective ajax-supported xforms are definitely important.

hi,
installing the database poses some problems. perhaps someone has a quick idea.

system is an intel mac with mac os x 10.4.10, java version "1.5.0_07", mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.41, for apple-darwin8.5.1 (i686) using readline 5.0, mysql-connector-java-5.0.6-bin.jar (copied into modules/mod-db/lib, cold restart thereafter)

i created a user and granted him all privileges i could think of like this:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'foo'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'bar' WITH GRANT OPTION ;

then i ran the install form at https://localhost:1060/ep+name@app_blogxter_installer_start with the following settings:

hostname      localhost    mysql port    3306    db admin user foo    db admin pass bar

the page returns with the following warning:

Error Can not issue SELECT via executeUpdate(). Please check your database permissions. The DB Admin account you use must have remote access and GRANT permissions. Also make sure you have a MySQL JDBC driver installed in mod_db/lib/.

https://localhost:1060/blogxter/ (it's https in my case, see the other thread http://www.1060.org/forum/topic/265/1 for details) returns an Internal Server Error which is so long that i hesitate to post it here.

but a database named 'blogxter' was created as well as two users named 'blogxter' and one user named 'foo'. so the script apperently did something - but failed somewhere else? or does the problem lie within the blogxter application?

thanks in advance for any help!
thomas 

maybe the last part of the Internal Server Error _is_ of some help:

<id>Error sourcing resource</id> <message>resource ffcpl:/etc/ConfigRDBMS.xml not found in module urn:org:ten60:netkernel:mod:blogxter</message> <requestid>ffcpl:/etc/ConfigRDBMS.xml</requestid> <stack> <level>com.ten60.netkernel.module.accessor.ModuleResourceAccessor.source() line:108</level> <level>com.ten60.netkernel.module.accessor.ModuleResourceAccessor.requestAsync() line:70</level> <level>com.ten60.netkernel.scheduler.Scheduler.stateRequestRepresentation() line:429</level> <level>com.ten60.netkernel.scheduler.Scheduler.processRequest() line:251</level>

indeed i can't find a file ConfigRDBMS.xml within the modules/.../blogxter/etc directory (in which path "..." stands for upload41221.jar - so the actual path is /Applications/netkernel/modules/upload41221.jar - another strangeness which worries me a little)