RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks [Paperback]

Dave Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 31, 2006

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.

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About the Author

Dave Johnson started blogging in 2002 using Java-based blogging software that he developed called Roller. Roller now drives the ground-breaking employee blogs at Sun Microsystems, is used by thousands of bloggers on JRoller.com and other sites, and is a successful open source project. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications (July 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932394494
• ISBN-13: 978-1932394498
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,529,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dave Johnson is a North Carolina based software developer who has worked in a variety of software companies including Rogue Wave, HAHT Software and SAS Institute. In 2002, unable to satisfy his urge to create cool software at work, Dave worked nights and weekends to create the open source, Java-based Roller blog server. Dave now works on Roller full-time as a Staff Engineer in the blogs.sun.com team at Sun Microsystems.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RSS and Atom from the application developer perspective, October 2, 2006

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This review is from: RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks (Paperback)

I've read other books on RSS; this one is somewhat unique because it covers RSS and Atom from the application developer perspective; it's not a book on XML or the RSS/Atom's syntax; it's aimed at programmers that want to build applications that handle RSS/Atom feeds. So you will find plenty of real-world code, both in Java and C#. Developers working in other platforms will miss the direct benefits of the sample code and applications, but I guess it would e a worthy read for them as well (it was for me)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good read, February 23, 2007

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uml_zepho_com (Raleigh, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks (Paperback)

This book introduces the concepts very clearly and gives lot of examples in Java and C#. I don't know if there are any mistakes in the example code.

I liked this book primarily due to its ideas. Some of them are not new, such as generating feeds for your development process from Ant.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Realistic and useful, November 19, 2006

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Riccardo Corsi "Richard" (UDINE ITALY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RSS and Atom in Action: Web 2.0 Building Blocks (Paperback)

I've buyed this book for RSS and newsfeeds in particular. The book explains how to add web20 support in your web site from RSS to blogs, with examples in java & C#.

I've expected more examples and more complex, but the argument is depicted as a web professional requires.

It's for developers.