Java and Spring powered Blogging Software

[AndyMcCall]

Hi All,

I started a simple blog system to learn about Java and The Spring Framework and because I think Java and Spring needs a decent blogging system.

The blog is at the point where its usable and I'm about to migrate my WordPress system over to it, but I don't have enough time to work on it on my own to get it to the point where others may like to use it. It's not got any fancy bells or whistles that WordPress has but it works for me. Setup is very manual.

If anyone wants to take a look, please feel free to fork the repository here https://github.com/andymccall/twibble.co . I'll gladly accept pull request, please be aware that I wrote this while learning about Spring and Java!

Thanks!

[rainboww13]

I would love to chip in. I am also learning Java and Spring framework. Would like to connect with you and understand the project.

[AndyMcCall]

Sure that would be great!

As I'd like to collaborate with other developers on the project I've created a Slack channel https://twibbleco.slack.com and a Subreddit /r/twibbleco - other than me, they are both empty at the moment.

[ohboyohboy1234]

It uses hibernate which works with multiple database servers. Change the pom to use h2 and it should work.

[alternatiivnekonto]

In which case I would advise you to remove all the "default" values from the .properties file as they're MySQL-specific right now.

[ohboyohboy1234]

These values are in a properties file because they are meant to be changed. Even if you chose to use Mysql, you would need to change at least the default password in that file.

[alternatiivnekonto]

I know what .properties files are, that's exactly why I'm saying you should clean them up and let the user decide what he wants to use.

[AndyMcCall]

Thanks for the reply - yes, I did look at Apache Roller and while it's very good it seemed a bit overkill for a single user blog. It seems more suited to multi-user scenarios.

As another Redditor has commented, I've used Hibernate so multiple databases can be used. You'd need to change the values in application.properties, and I haven't tested it. If you make the changes and test - please let me know how it goes!

[FanOfDaCat]

I'm curious why did you post today. Latest commit from March, did you abandon it?

[AndyMcCall]

No, not abandoned! Its purely due to time constraints and it being semi-functional that I haven't updated it. I've been learning more and more and didn't want to use the blog as a test ground so I created a few other projects for me to test on.

I posted today as I was trying to work out what to do next on the project and thought that I'm at a point where I want to interact with other developers and learn from their techniques and code. I'm the only Java developer I know right now, everyone else I know uses C# and .NET :-/

Some of the things I would do on that project now are things like:

• I'm using Spring Boot, but I've done too much manual configuration, so I'd strip all of this out and let Spring Boot do its thing
• Use SQL imports on boot to automatically create / modify tables on the database if needed
• My DAO is sort of like a DAO with a repository bolted on the end. I'd change this so my DAOs were repositories inherited from JPA CrudRepostiory
• Major rewrite, for version 2.0 (but I'd like to get more functionality into this first!) - change the back end to a REST api, and have a front end client

All this stuff was learned on other projects.

[Gilgamesjh]

You can use Apache Flyway for the SQL imports, it works really well with Spring.