Rss and atOM utiliEs (ROME) v0.7 Beta Release (Sep/08/2005)

Normally each release of ROME includes a whole new set of Wiki pages with the corresponding version number. ROME 0.7 is reusing ROME 0.5 Wiki pages as most of the changes are internal.

• What is New, Highlights
  • We got a cool logo
  • Bug fixes
  • Several Date and time parsing improvements including support for custom parsing masks

• 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

• Changes Log

• Inside ROME, How Things Work
  • How ROME Works, Understanding ROME, a detailed overview by Dave Johnson (This doc is based on ROME v0.4)
  • 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
  • Creating a custom Module, creating all necessary pieces, bean, parser and generator
  • The CopyFrom interface
  • ROME bean utilities, equals, toString and clonning
  • Customizing Date and time parsing in the rome.properties file NEW

Known Issues

None.