ROME 0.4 Beta

What is New, Highlights

• Changed naming convention of bean interfaces and implementations (i.e.: SyndFeedI/SyndFeed are now SyndFeed/SyndFeedImpl)

• New XmlReader that handles charset encoding as defined by the XML 1.0 specification and RFC 3023

• Support of RSS 0.91 Netscape and RSS 0.91 Userland as distinct feed types

• All feed types have Modules support

• Added checks to generators reducing the chances of generating invalid feeds

• Comprehensive Unit testing

• Bug fixes

• More documentation and samples

• Dependencies, upgraded to JDom 1.0 and removed Xerces

Dependencies

• J2SE 1.4+

• JDOM 1.0

Downloads

Additional Information

• Tutorials

• Changes Log

• Inside ROME, How Things Work

  • How ROME Works, Understanding Rome (a detailed overview by Dave Johnson)

  • Rome common Package, bean utilities, enums, copying and clonning

  • ROME Plugins Mechanism, bootstrap, adding and changing parsers, generators, converters and modules

  • Feeds Date Elements, how Date data is mapped to SyndFeed and SyndEntry

  • Feed and Entry URI Mapping, how SyndFeed and SyndEntry 'uri' properties map to concrete feed elements

  • XML Charset Encoding Detection, how Rome helps getting the right charset encoding

Known Issues

None.