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Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps
My latest article entitled Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps has been published on SitePoint, a website specialising in information about web development and design. As Sam said earlier, SitePoint are having a "Spotlight on Java and J2EE" week where they are publishing a new Java/J2EE article every day. Here's the abstract for my article.
As content sites flourish, RSS feeds have become essential for many site owners. Simon shows how JSP custom tags can be used to implement RSS feed functionality as a reusable component within your own JSP-based Web applications.
You can read it online or print it for reading offline.
Update : There's also a thread in which to discuss the article.
Re: Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps
Simon,
I wrote a couple of articles on the same topic for java.net (Using RSS in JSP pages and
More RSS for Java) - I used the Informa API for reading RSS feeds - they might be of interest, as might the Informa project itself.
Oh, and I think the email verification is bugged - it wouldn't accept sam-newman <at> magpiebrain.com as being valid (I did put the @ in - just a vain attempt here to avoid spam bots!).
Re: Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps
Yes, I saw the articles that you wrote for java.net and rather than use a library I wanted to keep the article and code download simple as the guys over at SitePoint wanted to emphasis on building tags more than anything else. Looking back, I should have dropped in a reference to Informa and RSSLibJ and I've done this in the discussion thread for the article. Thanks for the tip though, I liked the articles. :-)
p.s. yes, I'm running the current CVS HEAD of Pebble and haven't written my unit tests for the (regex based) e-mail validation yet.
p.s. yes, I'm running the current CVS HEAD of Pebble and haven't written my unit tests for the (regex based) e-mail validation yet.
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
System.out.println("I must write unit tests before upgrading my site.");
}
;-)
Spanish translation of "Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps" available
The Java Users Group Argentina have published a Spanish translation of my article...
