21.03.2010
For a new RSS/Atom hobby project implemented in Java I tried YARFRAW - Yet Another RSS Feed Reader Appender Writer API. I mention it here as a warning to everybody interested in simple RSS/Atom parsing in Java - it's the biggest piece of crap I've ever seen. The parsing itself is flawed, the API horrible and the number of dependencies incredible! Thankfully there's ROME: RSS/Atom syndication and publishing tool, which has a sane API, works as advertised and has a single dependency - neato!