Alejandro Abdelnur has just started the Mano subproject in ROME, a Java web application that will parse, transform, and aggregate multiple RSS or Atom feeds using a REST-ful API. This is seriously cool stuff that will let you do things like:

• Request an RSS feed but have it formatted as Atom. Or vise versa.
• Request multiple feeds in various formats, returned in a common format of your choosing.
• Merge, store, and paginate feeds on demand.
• Improve your love life.*

For more information on the project, see the ROME Mano Wiki page.

* Only in cases where your significant other gets excited by the Java servlet filter pattern.

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.