Monday September 27, 2004

Rome v0.4 is available

We've just released version 0.4 of Rome and Rome Fetcher. They are still marked as Alpha but we consider they are already stable for some serious use, we just want to do some sanity check (mostly classes, interfaces, methods and packages names) before we go with a Beta release (which we hope it will be the next one).

We've been busy with this one, just check Rome Changes Log and Rome Fetcher Changes Log, 35 entries. A few highlights:

• Changed naming convention of the bean interfaces and implementations (i.e.: SyndFeedI/SyndFeed are now SyndFeed/SyndFeedImpl)
• New XmlReader that handles charset encoding as defined by the XML 1.0 specification and RFC 3023
• Support for RSS 0.91 Netscape and RSS 0.91 Userland as distinct feed types
• All feed parsers/generators have Modules support
• Added checks to generators reducing the chances of generating invalid feeds
• Several implementation pieces have been refactored or rewritten
• Comprehensive Unit testing
• Bug fixes
• More documentation and samples
• Dependencies, upgraded to JDom 1.0 and removed dependency from Xerces
• The Fetcher adds support for Apache HTTP Client for retrieving feeds