Interested in handling RSS or Atom feeds in Java? Hop on over to xml.com and check out my article, “ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java“. It is a hands-on tutorial that shows you how to act like your own FeedBurner and add a footer to existing feed items.

ROME, the Java library for parsing/producing all manner of RSS and Atom feeds, has just released version 0.8.

The biggest feature additions in this release are Atom 1.0 support and a bevy of 3rd party modules to support the Content namespace, iTunes Podcasts, Slash, Google Base, Creative Commons, and MediaRSS.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the latest features, refactoring, and bug fixes!

ROME is an open-source java library project that eases the parsing and generating RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds. The ROME founders have just announced the winner of its logo contest to be a design by Ozan Yigit:

While I like the winning entry by Mr. Yigit, I’m afraid the no-two-pieces-fit aspect conveys “cobbled together”… not the kind of image an open source project wants to garner. Hopefully that’s a bit of over-analysis on my part and the general public doesn’t get the same impression. (More on this here.)

The other finalist, Sylvain Comte, had a great design that was my personal favorite. I wasn’t part of choosing the winner, but I felt his colleseum design presented a very polished sleek image for ROME.

Never the less, congrats to Mr. Yigit, and thanks to everyone who participated in the ROME logo contest.

The new MyAOL Beta, with a heritage reaching back to MyNetscape’s early RSS development, is reportedly using ROME under the hood to manage its syndicated feeds.

From one of AOL’s engineers: “The latest My AOL product, a customizable, feed-driven web application, uses the Rome library to read, manipulate, and normalize RSS, RDF, and Atom feeds. My AOL was built on a very rapid development schedule, and Rome made much of it a lot easier than it otherwise would have been.“

Rss and atOM utilitiEs (ROME) is a set of Atom/RSS Java utilities that make it easy to work in Java with most syndication formats.

The ROME development team is pleased to announce a ROME Logo Contest starting today.

    http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/RomeLogoContest

We encourage anyone who is interested (even people who don’t use ROME) to submit a logo design that will represent the ROME Project. Check out the above link for details. (And yes, there are prizes.)

So fire up Inkscape/Illustrator and show us your design-fu. And please help us get the word out so that we can get a lot of submissions.

Also, I should point out the Flickr’d RSS feed of submission entries. This is a handy way to see what people are submitting as they come in.