JavaFX - RSS and ATOM Task

JavaFX 1.2 provides new APIs to handle RSS and ATOM feeds. RssTask and AtomTask parses the feeds and provide the content as JavaFX objects. It can also be configured to provide updates on regular intervals.

RssTask parses the feed and provides the content as Channel and Item objects. These objects in-turn provides other information such as image, link, title, category, date etc.

Similarly AtomTask parses feed and provides Feed and Entry objects. These objects in-turn provides information such as author, category, link, logo, contributors etc.

News ticker using Yahoo RSS feed is given below.

For Applet mode, click on above image

For standalone mode

RssTask Usage:


var rssTask = RssTask {

    

    location: "http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/world"

    interval: 300s



    onException: function(e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

    }



    onChannel: function(channel) {

        println("{channel.title}");

    }



    onItem: function(item) {

        println("{item.title}");

    }

}

rssTask.start();

AtomTask Usage:


var atomTask = AtomTask {

    

    location: "http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/feed/atom"

    interval: 300s



    onException: function(e) {

        e.printStackTrace();

    }



    onFeed: function(feed) {

        println("{feed.title}");

    }



    onEntry: function(entry) {

        println("{entry.title}");        

    }

}

atomTask.start();