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Creating a w3c validated rss feed using Rome and spring 3

By jettro, on February 16th, 2010

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For my current customer I had to create an rss feed. In the java domain you immediately grab Rome to do the job. There was a catch. My customer wants (with good reason) to have feeds validated by the w3c feed validator. This turned out to be a slightly more complicated job. Luckily Rome has good support for extensions, so at least it was possible.

In this blog post I describe the challenges I had creating the validated feed. If you want more in depth information please check my post on my employers blog : serving a heavy load rss feed with spring 3 and ehcache.

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February 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Java, Technology | 11 comments

Still doing grails

By jettro, on January 10th, 2010

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This is the third post in a series of post about grails. In this series I am describing an application I am creating with grails. It is a scheduling application for scheduling people on projects. You can find the previous posts here:

In this post I will discuss the following topics:

  • Creating meeting notes using the grails-ui rich text editor
  • Create a search using the searchable plugin on the meeting notes
  • Introducing rss to subscribe to new meeting notes

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January 10th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Java, groovy and grails | 4 comments

Using spring integration for rss reading

By jettro, on March 29th, 2009

For a customer I was thinking about a solution to loosely couple some systems to be integrated with a content management system, hippo cms in this case. I remembered I had a demo for a few times by Iwein Fuld and by Roel Derksen. A few weeks a go, Allard showed a nice demo with spring integration and sending an email. Based on these experiences I think that spring integration is a very nice product to solve my problem.

In this post I am showing the steps to create an application that reads an rss feed, transforms the data into our domain model, send the message to a business service. Of course I use spring integration in this step by step tutorial.

Of course the code is available online, check the references.

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March 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: Java, Technology | 3 comments

My first source contribution to springframework

By jettro, on November 18th, 2008

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I have reached a new Milestone. More than three years ago I blogged about a framework called Rome. This is a framework that enables you to create Rss feeds without to much hassle. I found the framework and created a base class that was [...]

November 18th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: Java, Technology | 2 comments