---------------------------------
Project Full Name
---------------------------------

RSS Library for Java


---------------------------------
Project Purpose and Summarization
---------------------------------

This is a joint project of the authors of two Java news reader applications
(HotSheet and Risotto [part of jsurfer]). We intend to unify the common
parts into a library which can be used by any developer who needs to address
those issues in their application. The main important goals of this projects
are:

 1: Ability to both read RSS channels and write them.

 2: Ability to store off the news items read from RSS channels but to skip
    that step for programs that don't require storage. Programs that don't
    need anything but the ability to read a current channel can stick to the
    Channel and Item objects and blow off the ChannelStore and ItemStore.

 3: Better modelling of the pieces that make up RSS channels in order to
    support 0.92 and 0.93 channel types.

 4: Use interfaces to describe pieces of the library where we think there
    might be multiple different implementations (for example database
    storage vs. XML).

 5: Provide functionality that can prevent duplicates from getting into the
    item storage.

 6: Simple filtering can be done on the stored set of news items so you can
    pick out only those for a particular set of channels, within a date
    range, that match a particular regex expression, etc.

 7: Provide events and listeners that allows developers to build a
    Model-View-Controller application around the library (as well as more
    traditional linear applications).

 8: Give support for retrieving and handling OCS channel lists. 

 9: Threaded execution of RSS retrieval. 

10: The library has a clear separation between retrieving RSS and parsing
    it.

11: The library would ship with Unit Tests, Javadocs and some sample
    programs.


---------------------------------
License
---------------------------------

GNU Library or "Lesser" Public License (LGPL)
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html


---------------------------------
Project Public Description
---------------------------------

The RSS Library will provide a convenient Java API for handling news
channels and metadata about them. Different syntax formats (like RSS 0.90,
0.91 and 1.0) for channels will be supported, as well as we plan to allow
retrieving channel information through OCS.


---------------------------------
Project Unix Name
---------------------------------

informa


---------------------------------
Project approved by sourceforge
---------------------------------

May 1, 2002