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To create the blogging section of the site I looked for yet another open source project for code to base my development. I tried both Roller and Personal Blog because they were based on Struts. Roller is quite extensive since it is capable of being set up at a hosting site for several people to use - it is a collection of Struts, Velocity, Hibernate, Castor and others. It was a bit complicated but I may use some of the code.

So I used the code from Personal Blog by Niel Eyde. It is a Struts based weblogger but I changed most of it because it is the opposite design model than the one I use. Most of the java is in the jsp and most the html is in the java - so I wrote my own jsps and am rewriting the Struts action classes. The calendar code is as is - very tough to move the html out of the action class onto the jsp. Also adding DAO objects changing the database layer.