Jericho

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Jericho

• CSCI 7818
• September 5, 2001
• Carissa Mills

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Overview

• Introduction
• Background
• Tools needed
• Features
• How Jericho can be used
• Implications for the future
• My review of Jericho

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Introduction

• Jericho is a tool that is used with Manilas
  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

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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/pr
  ojects/jericho/
• Jericho homepage http//jericho.sourceforge.net/
  
• Latest release August 26, 2001
• Latest Version 0.5

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Tools Needed

• Must have Ant to build Jericho
• Ant is make without makes 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

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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

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Features

• Can bring up a GUI to interface with your Blogger
  weblog
• You can select from your different Blogs
• You can post to your Blog
• You can post to your Blog and publish your post
  for entire site visibility

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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

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My Blog
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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 Weblogs

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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