RSS and Atom

Overview

RSS and Atom make it easy to read and write the web. Applications can use the Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC-5023) and the MetaWeblog API to publish any type of content to blog, wiki and CMS servers. You’ll find this reference card useful whether you are creating and serving, or subscribing to and parsing feeds.

Features include RSS 2.0 Feed Elements, Atom 1.0 Feed Elements, The Metaweblog API, The Blogger API, The Atom Protocol, Hot Tips and more.

About the Author

Dave Johnson is a North Carolina-based software developer who has worked in a variety of software companies including Rogue Wave, HAHT Software and SAS Institute. In 2002, unable to satisfy his urge to create cool software at work, Dave worked nights and weekends to create the open source, Java-based Roller blog server. Roller’s popularity at JRoller.com led to its adoption by Sun and IBM for internal and external blogs. It’s now known as Apache Roller and is a project of the Apache Software Foundation. Dave now works as a Social Software Architect on the App Platform team at Sun Microsystems.

Publications
RSS and Atom in Action, 2006
ProJSP, 2002
Article: Building a J2EE Weblogger, 2002

Projects
Original developer of the Roller blog server
Contributor to ROME feed parser/generator

Blogs
Blogging Roller, personal weblog, 2002 – present