1. Jericho CSCI 7818 September 5, 2001 Carissa Mills

2. Overview  Introduction  Background  Tools needed  Features  How Jericho can be used  Implications for the future  My review of Jericho

3. Introduction  Jericho 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 Windows  Java program  Can be used on multiple platforms

4. 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/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/jericho/  Jericho homepage: http://jericho.sourceforge.net/ http://jericho.sourceforge.net/  Latest release: August 26, 2001  Latest Version: 0.5

5. Tools Needed  Must 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

6. 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

7. Features  Can bring up a GUI to interface with your Blogger weblog  You can select from your different Blog’s  You can post to your Blog  You can post to your Blog and publish your post for entire site visibility

8. 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

9. My Blog

10. Implications for the Future  Allows the ability to post to your weblog without bringing up a browser  Could be more powerful once XML-RPC interface is implemented  Will be usable with Manila Weblog’s

11. My Review of Jericho  Extremely limited documentation  Difficult to install  Also need to install Ant  No executable documentation so tool is difficult to figure out how to run  The interface that it provides is not worth the install anguish