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e mërkurë janar 12, 2005
java-syndication Yahoo Group created I got some pretty good feedback after my post Java Syndication Babel: let's paint the picture together!, mainly from the Rojo/Feedparser team.
Adewale Oshineye who uses Informa and makes the desktop aggregator Aggrevator is against a JSR, but in favor of sharing tests, and merging projects. Good feedback: when we started Rome we asked Mark Pilgrim if we could use his Universal feedparser unit tests for Rome. We ended up not using them because they were structured bizarrely, but we reused his idea of starting a web server and serving feeds in the fetcher unit tests. I agree that a common set of unit tests would be excellent. I don't push for a JSR, I just want to start a conversation: we'll see as we go what form of collaboration are best, and wether a JSR is worth it or not.
Then the Rojo/Feedparser team, Brad Neuberg and Kevin Burton posted some good comments. I agree with Kevin that we don't necessarily need a JSR and should start collaborating now. From Kevin and Brad it seems like what we should work on first is defining a common set of Unit Tests, and a way to get a DOM-Rome-like API on top of their SAX-like API.
Following Kevin's suggestion I created a Yahoo Group to start working on that, and we can use the Rome wiki to write docs.
- java-syndication Group home page
- Group email: java-syndication@yahoogroups.com
- java-syndication wiki
Feel free to register, and I hope the Informa team will join us as well.
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