bedeviled mojo slop

Awhile back I looked at the possibility of using XStream in blojsom. It was focused on the back-end wherein blog entries and responses (comments/trackbacks/pingbacks) would be serialized and de-serialized as XML using XStream.

If you were running against the current version of blojsom in CVS and wanted to try it out yourself, you could download the blojsom/XStream files. To install, just 1) unpack that .ZIP in the addon\core\src\org\blojsom directory; 2) compile the add-ons; 3) copy the xstream-1.0.2.jar file into your /WEB-INF/lib directory and 4) change the following line in /WEB-INF/blojsom.properties, blojsom-fetcher=org.blojsom.fetcher.xstream.XStreamFetcher. That's it.

As I said in the other entry, "Although not a deviation from using the filesystem as the content database, it's another format for the entries themselves ... and it worked." Also, all of the plugins work. No changes required. It's another confidence booster of sorts should I start (or maybe complete) work on an implementation of a fetcher for blojsom that goes against something like ... oh, I don't know ... a database.