Jericho

CSCI 7818

September 5, 2001

Carissa Mills

Overview IntroductionBackgroundTools neededFeaturesHow Jericho can be used Implications for the futureMy review of Jericho

IntroductionJericho is a tool that is used with

Manila’s XML-RPC interface or with Blogger (another weblog tool)

Current release only works with Blogger Can be run as a GUI or from the command

line in Unix or WindowsJava programCan be used on multiple platforms

Background Created and maintained by Josh Lucas, on

sourceforge.net Sourceforge.net is the worlds largest repository of

Open Source code and applications available on the Internet

Can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jericho/

Jericho homepage: http://jericho.sourceforge.net/

Latest release: August 26, 2001 Latest Version: 0.5

Tools NeededMust have Ant to build Jericho

Ant is: “make without make’s wrinkles” Extended using Java classes rather than

shell commands The configuration file is XML based rather

than shell command based By default it runs using a file name

build.xml Can be used across multiple platforms

Ant Cont. System requirements dictate that to build and

use Ant, you must have a JAXP-compliant XML parser installed and available in your classpath

A parser is bundled with the Ant download, the apache Crimson XML Parser

JDK 1.1 or later must be installed on your system

FeaturesCan bring up a GUI to interface with

your Blogger weblogYou can select from your different

Blog’sYou can post to your BlogYou can post to your Blog and publish

your post for entire site visibility

How to Use Jericho Bring up the GUI Enter your Blogger username and password

You must first create a Blogger username and password for this tool to work

A new GUI screen will appear with a text box to enter your post text into

You then enter your text to post Click on the post button Your post then appears on your Blogger page

My Blog

Implications for the FutureAllows the ability to post to your weblog

without bringing up a browserCould be more powerful once XML-RPC

interface is implementedWill be usable with Manila Weblog’s

My Review of JerichoExtremely limited documentationDifficult to installAlso need to install AntNo executable documentation so tool is

difficult to figure out how to runThe interface that it provides is not

worth the install anguish