ROME in a day: great article about how to use ROME by Marcus Tullius Homo Ligneus
Posted by pat 193 days ago
Mark Woodman is in a creative streak: after his excellent Putting RSS to Work: Immediate Action Feeds, he just published ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java on xml.com. It explains how to use ROME with a quite detailed an fun example, FeedWarmer, a small application that performs the same kind of functionality as FeedBurner, ie adding Immediate Action features to your feed. He gives a nice overview of ROME and its various subprojects, and explains how to use modules to parse and generate namespaced metadata present in feeds.
In an email conversation we had, he worried that it was really beginner's material: it is, but it is comprehensive, and beginner's material is exactly what we need to attract more folks to ROME and show how mnaipulating feeds with it is simple. In the past few months Mark emerged as ROME's chief evangelist and I'm thankful for that. Maybe we should start calling him Marcus Tullius Homo Ligneus:-)
Thanks for the article Mark: keep the ideas coming!
