Status Report for 01/31/2007 -- 02/14/2007

Progress

1. RSS/Atom Feed for CIMA Web 2.0

2. Research methods

(1) Create an atom feed (atom.xml) sample by hand;

(2) Make a service with atomsphere Java library and produce atom.xml from step(1), that is to say, make a service that responds with the atom feed in the HTTP response;

(3) Repeat step(2), use xml beans (apache project) instead;

(4) Compare the two methods above.

3. Research steps

(1) make feeds;

(2) do flicke;

(3) do pipe

4. Read some papers and books related to RSS/Atom feed

(1) Web sites

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#Example_-_RSS_2.0

• http://www.colorfulsoftware.com/projects/atomsphere

• http://xmlbeans.apache.org/

• http://www.timfanelli.com/item/howto_create_atom_feed

• http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1007853.html

(2) Books

• Developing Feeds with Rss and Atom by Ben Hammersley
• Beginning RSS and Atom Programming by Danny Ayers and Andrew Watt
• Hacking RSS and Atom by Leslie M. Orchard

Discussion

1. RSS for CIMA

2. XML Bean for CIMA

Future work

1. The issues described in Discussion section