RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks

by Dave Johnson, Simon Phipps (Foreword by)

An innovator's guide to application development with blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies, this book introduces the new ways of collaboration enabled by these technologies and focuses on the fundamental concepts needed to understand how the technologies can be used in real world applications. Blog and wiki server internals are covered in depth, and newsfeed formats and web service protocols for blogging are covered from a developer's point-of-view. Also covered are a variety of techiques programmers can use to monitor blog conversations, such as newsfeed search engines, and ways to join in the conversation such as comments, trackbacks, and Weblogs.com pings. Examples in Java and C# are provided to show how to parse Atom and RSS format newsfeeds, how to generate valid newsfeeds, how to serve them efficiently, and how to automate blogging via web services based on the new Atom protocol and the older MetaWeblog API. Focus is given to more than a dozen blog apps—small but immediately useful example applications based on blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies.

Genres: Programming

300 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005

About the author

There is more than one Dave Johnson in the Goodreads catalog. This entry is for Dave [5^] Johnson.

Reviews

[Christophe Addinquy · Rating 3 out of 5]

RSS and Atom are mainly used for blogs, and that's clearly the main focus of the author. On the other hand, because these XML formats are language neutral, the text address Javan and C#, even Python. In my opinion, it's a waste of space and energy. It would had been better to focus on only one and spread the usage of RSS and Atom on less obvious use cases.
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