Rome v0.4 Release (Sep/27/2004)

• 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
  • Source tar.gz
  • Source zip
  • Binary tar.gz
  • Binary zip
  • Samples source tar.gz
  • Samples source zip

• Javadocs

• Tutorials (1 New)

• 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.