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RSS and Atom In Action Web 2.0 Building Blocks Dave Johnson June, 2006 | 360 pages ISBN: 1932394494 |
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| $39.95 | Softbound print book | ||
DESCRIPTION
Two of the fastest growing technologies on the Web today are RSS and Atom. They are content syndication feeds used for everything from news headlines from major media organizations to alerts from social networking sites to blog postings to advertising. They allow web sites to share their content with other applications in a standard way. This book introduces the new ways of collaboration on the Web enabled by RSS and Atom and focuses on the fundamental concepts needed to understand how these technologies can be used in real world applications.
RSS and Atom in Action is organized into two parts. The first part introduces the blog technologies of newsfeed formats and publishing protocols—the building blocks. The second part shows how to put to those blocks together to assemble interesting and useful blog applications.
In keeping with the principle behind Manning’s “In Action” series, this book shows the reader, through numerous examples in Java and C#, how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds and serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. The book also shows how to develop a complete blog client library that readers can use in their own applications. The second half of the book is devoted to a dozen blog apps—-small but immediately useful example applications such as a community aggregator, a file distribution newsfeed, a blog cross-poster, an email-to-blog gateway, Ant tasks for blogging software builds, and more.
What's Inside
- Traces the evolution of newsfeed formats and explains the pros and cons of each
- Explains server technology in depth as well as guidelines for choosing blog or wiki server software
- Explains how to develop a complete Atom client library
- Covers Windows RSS Platform
- Covers Atom 1.0 format and protocol
ABOUT THE AUTHOR...
Dave Johnson is an experienced software developer, technology enthusiast, and expert in blog technologies. He started blogging in 2002 using Roller, a Java-based blogging software that he developed. Roller now drives the ground-breaking employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, is used by thousands of bloggers on JRoller.com and other sites, and is a successful open source project. Dave now works at Sun developing Roller and promoting blog technologies.