What is Pebble?
Pebble is a lightweight, open source, Java EE blogging tool. It's small, fast and feature-rich with unrivalled ease of installation and use. Blog content is stored as XML files on disk and served up dynamically, so there's no need to install a database. All maintenance and administration can be performed through your web browser, making Pebble ideal for anybody who is constantly on the move or doesn't have direct access to their host. You can see example blogs here and here.
Download now and you can be blogging in less than 5 minutes.
Quickstart with Tomcat
- Take the pebble.war file from the distribution and deploy it, by copying it to $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.
- Restart Tomcat and point your browser to http://localhost:8080/pebble/.
- Start blogging by logging in with a username of username and a password of password.
Minimum requirements
- Java 6.0
- A JSP 2.0/Servlet 2.4 compatible web/application server such as Apache Tomcat 6