Blogging Roller

Over the weekend I finished the second of two new chapters I promised for RSS and Atom in Action. The first one covered Windows RSS. The one I finished late last night is the new Chapter 7 on "The ROME newsfeed utilities." Here's the outline:

• Introducing ROME
• How ROME works
• The SyndFeed model
• Parsers, generators and converters
• The parsing process
• The generation process
• ROME limitations
• The ROME subprojects
• Parsing newsfeeds  with ROME
• Parsing to the SyndFeed model
• Parsing funky RSS
• How to handle Dublin Core
• How to handle <content:encoded>
• Parsing to the RSS model
• Parsing to the Atom model
• Fetching newsfeed with ROME
• How the ROME Fetcher works
• Using the ROME fetcher
• Generating newsfeeds with ROME
• Extending ROME
• The ROME plug-in architecture
• Adding new modules to ROME
• Overriding ROME
• Summary

I also updated the book's example code, which you can find on Java.Net here: http://blogapps.dev.java.net.