JSR-286 compliant ajax enabled Atom and RSS news reader Portlet

A colleague of mine, Satya a few days ago talked about JSR-286 and resource serving. He was describing what it is, and how it is a part of the JSR-286 spec. Satya incidentally was one of the key folks in implementing the same for the Open Source Portlet Container. He pointed me also to a nice article by Deepak Gothe and himself about the new JSR-286 specific features in the portlet container.

 After going through the article I was waiting to get started with the JSR-286 implementation of the portlet container and resource serving in particular. So I have implemented a "RSS and Atom feed reader" portlet using the Open Source Portlet Container. The portlet is AJAX enabled as well. To see a small screencast of it in action click here.

This is how it looks (click to enlarge and see in a new window):

 If you want to use this portlet, or try it out, you will need a portlet container which supports the JSR-286 spec, and resource serving in special. As mentioned earlier the Open Source Portlet Container is one of the best. You can get it from the web site as mentioned in the link, or get is as part of the JavaEE Tools Bundle (Choose to "Download with Tools"). If there is interest in this portlet, let me know and I can make it available.

 Read where you can get this portlet source code from on my personal blog@blogspot.