RSS Feeds
What are RSS Feeds?
Since it's always best to start simple and build from there, I find the definition and then explore the history of the concept/word/idea.
RSS has three acronyms. Each one represents a different RSS format (from Wikipedia):
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0)
where RDF stands for: Resource Description Framework.
All of them use the XML (Extensible Markup Language) data format specification for transfer of its contents over the internet.
RSS is used by its readers using programs called RSS aggregators. RSS is normally provided by web sites that have a rapid update cycle such as news feeds and blogs. In fact, this blog has an RSS feed available to it here: Atom Feed
So why am I mentioning RSS Feeds? The course I'm taking has us actually programming an RSS Feed Aggregator using Tomcat, Java Standard Tag Library, Ant, JSP and MySQL.
Next time: A little coding advice for my tutees.
Since it's always best to start simple and build from there, I find the definition and then explore the history of the concept/word/idea.
RSS has three acronyms. Each one represents a different RSS format (from Wikipedia):
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0)
where RDF stands for: Resource Description Framework.
All of them use the XML (Extensible Markup Language) data format specification for transfer of its contents over the internet.
RSS is used by its readers using programs called RSS aggregators. RSS is normally provided by web sites that have a rapid update cycle such as news feeds and blogs. In fact, this blog has an RSS feed available to it here: Atom Feed
So why am I mentioning RSS Feeds? The course I'm taking has us actually programming an RSS Feed Aggregator using Tomcat, Java Standard Tag Library, Ant, JSP and MySQL.
Next time: A little coding advice for my tutees.
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