The ROME Modules Subproject.

The ROME Modules project is an effort to roll up contributed module support into a single distribution for users.

Current modules in the subproject include:

• iTunes Podcasting -- Apples extensions for listing in the iTunes podcast directory.
• GeoRSS -- For adding location information to RSS/Atom.
• Slash -- Used by Slash-based blogs.
• Google Base -- For working with the Google Base types and custom tagsets.
• Content -- For using content:encoded tags.
• Creative Commons -- A unified module for working with the RDF and RSS/Atom Creative Commons License information.
• Yahoo! MediaRSS -- For working with Yahoo! MediaRSS feeds (and Flickr Photostreams)
• iPhoto Photocasting -- For working with Apple iPhoto Photocasts
• A9 OpenSearch -- For working with Amazon/OpenSearch.org results.
• Microsoft Simple List Extensions -- for sorting and grouping entries.
• Microsoft Simple Sharing Extensions -- for synchronizing across bi-directional RSS and OPML feeds.
• Yahoo! Weather -- For use with the Yahoo Weather API

Get it.

The 0.2 release of the omnibus jar, which includes all the plug ins listed above is availabe.

Binary

See individual module sites for information.

Changes

This release includes:

• iPhoto Photocast 0.2
• iTunes Podcast 0.4
• Google Base 0.2
• MediaRSS 0.2
• GeoRSS 0.1
• Slash 0.2
• Content 0.4.1
• CreativeCommons 0.2

General Guidelines for modules:

This is intended to serve as a guide for contributions as well as a hint for users working with the modules.

• Modules are packaged in com.sun.syndication.feed.module.[Module Name].
• Modules contain a com.sun.syndication.feed.module.[Module Name].Module.URI reference for retrieval from ROME Synd* classes.
• Modules contain a com.sun.syndication.feed.module.[Module Name].ModuleImpl that is a concrete implementation.
• Modules contain a com.sun.syndication.feed.module.[Module Name].types package that holds any other datatypes needed for the module. Many of these are simple immutable types to simplify clone() and copyFrom()
• Modules contain a com.sun.syndication.feed.module.[Module Name].io package with parsers and generators.

The unified modules subproject can be built from the subprojects/modules directory with Maven. As a hack, there is a maven.xml file there that compiles all the modules into the local target/ folder. To add a new module to the unified build, include:

<ant:javac
            srcdir="modulename/src/java"
            destdir="${maven.build.dest}"
            debug="${maven.compile.debug}"
            deprecation="${maven.compile.deprecation}"            
            classpathref="maven.dependency.classpath"/>

-- Main.kebernet - 18 Apr 2006