The Queen Mum of Weblog Hosting Systems – written in server-side JavaScript since 2001.
https://about.antville.org
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============== ABOUT ANTVILLE ============== Antville is an open source project aimed to the development of an "easy to maintain and use" weblog-hosting system. It can easily host up to several hundred or thousand weblogs (the number of weblogs is more limited by the site owner's choice and server power than software limitations). Antville is entirely written in JavaScript (ECMAScript, to be precise) and based on Helma Object Publisher, a powerful and fast scriptable open source web application server (which itself is written in Java). Antville works with a relational database in the backend. Check out http://project.antville.org/ for more information. ============================ ABOUT HELMA OBJECT PUBLISHER ============================ Helma Object Publisher is a web application server. With Helma Object Publisher (sometimes simply referred to as Helma or Hop) you can define Objects and map them to a relational database table. These so-called HopObjects can be created, modified and deleted using a comfortable object/container model. Hence, no manual fiddling around with database code is necessary. HopObjects are extended JavaScript objects which can be scripted using server-side JavaScript. Beyond the common JavaScript features, Helma provides special "skin" and template functionalities which facilitate the rendering of objects via a web interface. Thanks to Helma's relational database mapping technology, HopObjects create a hierarchical structure, the URL space of a Helma site. The parts between slashes in a Helma URL represent HopObjects (similar to the document tree in static sites). The Helma URL space can be thought of as an analogy to the Document Object Model (DOM) in client-side JavaScript. ====== STATUS ====== Antville should be considered pre-release quality code. Although it is heavily used by several thousands of users at http://www.antville.org chances are that there are still bugs hidden somewhere in this application (if you found one please report it at http://helma.org/bugs). Antville can be used for production purposes, but please mind that the creators of Antville and Helma do not take any warranty (whichever kind). =================== SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS =================== To run Antville you need Helma Object Publisher (http://helma.org) and a relational database in the backend. Antville was tested with MySQL (http://www.mysql.com) and Oracle (v.8.1.7). For setting up Helma Object Publisher and the database of your choice please refer to their installation instructions. Since Antville sends confirmation mails to users (i.e. after registration or if they were added to the list of members of a site), you'll also need access to an SMTP server. Helma comes with its own embedded webserver (Jetty) so you don't need to install one, although you can easily use Apache httpd as front-end webserver too (this might be necessary for really big Antville installations or if you need advanced features like URL rewriting). ===================================== DOCUMENTATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION ===================================== To get the documentation and further information regarding Antville please refer to: http://project.antville.org http://macros.antville.org (the documentation of Antville macros) http://help.antville.org Feel free to ask any question regarding the application at http://project.antville.org For further information about Helma http://helma.org generally is a good place. There is also a mailing-list about Helma-related stuff available at http://helma.org/lists/listinfo/hop. ================================== BUG REPORTING AND FEATURE REQUESTS ================================== If you find any bug please report it at http://helma.org/bugs. Please post feature requests or proposals to http://project.antville.org. Since Antville is open-source, you're definetly encouraged to modify the application, but please keep us informed on what you do/did (either by posting at http://project.antville.org or by sending a mail to antville@helma.org). For those of you who demonstrated a commitment to collaborative open- source development through sustained participation and contributions within the development of Antville, there will also be other ways to participate.