I am looking for libraries which can read RSS / ATOM feeds in my J2EE application (based on JBoss Seam).
Is Rome the only application there for reading feeds?
I am assuming the Seam RSS integration is only for generating RSS feeds and not for reading feeds.
While many podcasting applications, such as iTunes, support the use of Atom 1.0, RSS 2.0 remains the preferred format.
RSS - Really Simple Syndication An RSS document is an XML file which can be used to publish blog entries and news. The format of the XML file is specified via the RSS specification. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (in version 2.0 of the RSS specification).
Content Syndication is a mechanism using which the contents of a website including articles, news, blogs and forums are published partially or fully to other websites in a specific format. RSS and Atom are the two main standards of web syndication. Atom was developed to avoid the limitations and flaws of RSS.
RSS/Atom feeds give good hints about where to find the most recently updated pages. If your website provides an RSS or Atom feed, our crawler will download it to find new links on your site to index first. This is particularly useful when Site Search is doing an incremental update of your website.
Have you had a look into the following list? http://java-source.net/open-source/rss-rdf-tools
Even though it has been mentioned several times, I would suggest using Rome as well.
Rome is a very mature, extremely well java-documented library and is still the de facto standard for this job.
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