Tutorials

The following tutorials show how to use the ROME API. They focus on the higher abstraction layer of classes offered by ROME, what we call the Synd* classes. By using the Synd* classes developers don't have to deal with the specifics of any syndication feed. They work with normalized feeds, the Synd* feeds. This makes it much easier to write applications that have to deal with all the variety of syndication feed types in use today.

1. Using ROME to read a syndication feed
2. Using ROME to convert a syndication feed from one type to another
3. Using ROME to aggregate many syndication feeds into a single one
4. Using ROME to create and write a feed
5. Defining a Custom Module bean, parser and generator
6. Using ROME within a Servlet to create and return a feed

For instructions on how to build and run the samples used in the tutorials click here.

Additional Information

• Bean Utilities
• XML Charset Encoding detection
• The CopyFrom interface (rome)
• Date Elements Mapping
• Plugins Mechanism
• URI Mapping

Articles

• O'Reilly - ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java by Mark Woodman (February 22, 2006).
  A hands-on tutorial that shows you how to act like your own FeedBurner and add a footer to existing feed items.
• java.net - Taking a Tour of ROME by Randy J. Ray (February 2, 2006).
  Working with web syndication? Your development path may lead you to ROME--not the city, but the syndication framework, which makes working with RSS and Atom a breeze for both server-and client-side code. Randy J. Ray has an introduction to this project.
• inkBlots - Interview with Patrick Chanezon by Mark Woodman (July 13, 2005).
  Why and how we started this project.