RSS Reader
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1. lt RSS_URL gt http www feedzilla com rss art ballet dancing lt RSS_URL gt lt RSS_DESCRIPTION gt lt FEED TITLE gt Compassion Not Punishment Helps Diffuse Workplace Anger Study http www medicinenet com lt FEED TITLE gt lt FFFN_NFSCRIPTION gt Title Compassion Not Punishment Helps Diffuse Workplace Anger Study Category Health News Created 4 14 2011 4 05 00 PM Last Editorial Review 4 15 2011 lt br clear all gt lt FEED_DESCRIPTION gt lt FEED_DATE gt Fri 15 Apr 2011 08 00 00 0100 lt FEED_DATE gt lt CCD_URL gt http news feedzilla com en_us stories art ballet dancing 76531706 client_source feed amp format rss lt CCD_URL gt lt FEED_GUID sfeedzilla com 78531708 lt FEED_GUID gt lt FEED_SOURCE gt http www medicinenet com lt FEED_SOURCE gt lt FEED_URL_SOURCE gt LAJ lt feed gt lt feed gt lt RSS gt Rallet Dancing lt RSS gt lt RSS_URL gt http www feedzilla com rss art ballet dancing lt RSS_URL gt lt RSS_DESCRIPTION gt lt FEED_TITLE Estrogen s Role in Breast Cancer Can Fluctuate http www medicinenet com FEED_TITLE gt lt FEED_DESCRIPTION gt TItle Estrogen s Role In Breast Cancer Can Fluctuate Category Health News Created 4 15 2011 10 05 00 AM Last Editorlal Review 4 15 2011 lt br clear all gt lt FEED_DESCRIPTION gt lt FEED_DATE gt Fri 15 Apr 2011 08 00 00 0100 lt FEED_DATE gt lt FEED_URL gt http news feedzill2. 2007 They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favorite websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place RSS feeds can be read using software called as RSS reader feed reader or aggregator There are different RSS readers that work on different operating systems so one must choose one which is supported by its computer Finkelstein E 2005 There are several types of news readers They can be accessed either by browser or can be downloaded If one chooses to access the transmission RSS browser he will be able to access the latest news from any computer If one chooses to download an application to read RSS feeds then he can also store information on his computer as he 4 Unnamed rssirss HeidiSQL 6 0 0 3603_ ao File Edit Search Tools Import Export Help a TE Bae e amp sa s H 4 H H GOGN P oie 5 H a a ca E i 5 4 U Unnamed GA Host 127001 Database rss Table rss DE Data RSS_DB_SAVE_FILEsql Go pcg tat coe ln i Basic a Options o gt Indexes Foreign keys Lost CREATE code LA ALTER code edeol z mysql 22 MB Narre rss performance schema OG Comment phpmyadmin a la mss 135 7 KB _ fends 1 0 Ke E ws 135 7 KE rsscategs 26KB Columns 4 Add A r test OB Name Datatype Lemath Set Unsign Allow A Zerofill Default Comment Collation webauth 2 1 KB gt 1 idRSs INT 10 l AUTO _INCREMEMT 2 RSS CATEG TEXT oe 3 RSS DESCRIPT TEXT r
3. e RSS publishing sites on the web sites and generating corresponding HTML code The ability to add new search engines and search links to save the configuration file 3 CONCLUSIONS The technology has evolved greatly in recent years Keeping updated with the desired information from the Internet 1s becoming more difficult because daily appears new and new Web sites and navigating on them can become difficult when one wants to receive latest news RSS technology is considerably more attractive to users looking for information in multiple places on multiple sites or news portals This technology is very useful to those who struggle constantly with time and want to be kept informed News spread very quickly today an event that happened immediately if we have the technology needed wherever we are we can be informed JRSSReader will be an open source project and everyone who knows the Java programming language can help improve the application Not necessarily need to contribute through implementation of Java code but can be useful for application testing and reporting any problems arising The authors wait opinions about what features users would like to appear in the next version 4 REFERENCE Hammersly B 2005 O Reilly Media Finkelstein E 2005 Syndicating Web Sites with RSS Feeds For Dummies Wiley Publishing Developing Feeds with Rss Ayers D 2005 Beginning RSS and Atom Programming Wiley Publishing H
4. 4 RSS TITLE TEXT 5 RSS URL TEXT F Chat ibase hie Help 52 SHOW ENGINES 89 SELECT idhSS LEFT RSS CATES 256 LEFT RSS DESCRIPTION 256 LEFT RS9_TITLE 256 LEPT RSS URL 256 FROH rT353 rs LIMIT 1000 30 SHOW CREATE TABLE ras 91 SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE ras li J Connected 00 02 14 mA MySQL 5 5 16 Uptime 00 06 11 Fig 1 JRSSReader s tables view from HeidiSQL would with an e mail After a news reader was chosen one must subscribe to RSS news feeds that present interests 2 ISSREADER 2 1 JRSSReader database JRSSReader will save all the news in a SQL database saved on the local machine making it possible to read news at any time The database will contain three tables RSS table feeds categs and rsscategs RSS table contains information about RSS channels saved by the user Thus for each RSS channel saved the user will need to enter information about the category that will be part of the title s RSS its URL and a brief description Observation Title URL and RSS s category are required fields in order to save a RSS database RSS s description may be missing Feeds table is the most important of the three tables because it contains all the news that we receive The table called rsscategs is used to store the RSS categories These are managed only by the user Every time the user adds a new RSS it must be added to a category 2 2 JRSSReader appli
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6. updating RSS feeds suitable site or category selected gt Link icon pressing this icon will open the feed URL selected in the system s default web browser i Di Yahoo icon pressing this icon will perform a search in Yahoo search engine using as keyword the title s feed Google icon pressing this icon will perform a search using the Google search engine and search as word title s feed Bing icon pressing this icon will perform a search in the Bing search engine using as word title s feed Wikipedia icon pressing this icon will perform a search in the encyclopedia Wikipedia search engine using as keyword the feed s title G W As an example of pressing search icons Yahoo icon Google icon Bing icon and Wikipedia icon which executes searches on various search engines let s suppose that one has selected a feed as in Fig 3 selection of table feed After the selection of the feed from the table one must click on the any icon from the icon bar As it was mentioned before each icon searches on different search engine In our example the Google icon was selected Clicking this icon will generate a search URL as it can be seen below URL http www google ro sclient psy amp hl ro amp site amp so urce hp amp q EnerNOC shares rise on energy pay rulin g 28bizjournals 29 amp tp 1 amp bav on 2 or r_gce r_pw amp c ad b and then it will be opened in the default Web browser on the system The L
7. RSS Reader Dan Costin Tusaliu Ovidiu Mirica Adrian Gabriel Neatu Computers and Communications Engineering Department Faculty of Automation Computers and Electronics University of Craiova Craiova Romania Abstract This paper focuses on the new trends in the new media and on the way how information is gathered and visualized by people Starting from here the authors want to propose an open source application in order to help people in this perspective RSS technology is considerably more attractive to users looking for information in multiple places on multiple sites or news portals JRSSReader will be an open source project and everyone who knows the Java programming language can help improve the application Keywords RSS Java XML open source SQL database HTML web application 1 INTRODUCTION RSS originally RDF Site Summary often dubbed Really Simple Syndication Ayers D 2005 is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries news headlines audio and video in a standardized format An RSS document which is called a feed web feed or channel includes full or summarized text plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship RSS feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically Hammersly B 2005 A standardized XML file format allows the information to be published once and viewed by many different programs Hunter D
8. a com en_us stories art ballet dancing 78531707 client_source feed amp format rss lt FEED_URL gt lt FEED GUID gt feedzilla com 78531707 lt FEED GUID gt lt FFFN_SOURCF gt http www_medicinenet com lt FFFD_SOURCF gt FEED_URL_SOURCE gt lt food gt feed lt RSS gt Ballet Dancing lt RSS gt lt KSS_URL gt http www feedzilla com rss art ballet dancing lt KSS_UKL gt lt RSS_DESCRIPTION gt lt FEED_TITLE gt A Good Diet Includes Many Cancer Fighting Foods Expert http www medicinenet com lt FEED_TITLE gt lt FEED DESCRIPTION Title A Good Diet Includes Many Cancer Fighting Foods Expert Category Health News Created 4 15 2011 10 05 00 AM Last Editorial Review 4 15 3011 lt hr clear all gt lt FFFD_DFSCRIPTION gt FEED_DATE Fri 15 Apr 2011 08 00 00 0100 lt FEED_DATE lt Done a retransmitted by the user Computer Protected Mode Off t v R10 v Fig 4 Example of the exporting news in XML format concatenation the files will have the same format as the original and will contain data files Also the merge function from the File menu allows linking two files exported by the same type XML or HTML The user must note that in this moment there is not possible to concatenate two files of different type After Concatenation requires the selection of at least two files and if the user selects only one file then it will receive an information message From the Tools m
9. cation JRSSReader is a pure Java solution for receiving news in RSS format The application is made from the scratch based on the JDK 6 and it will work on every machine that has installed the JDK version 6 or newer Sauers M 2010 The JRSSReader application was implemented using Eclipse 3 6 Eclipse is an open source development environment written mainly in Java As it can be seen in the Fig 2 application is composed from packages default package contains the main class GUI package containing the useful classes for interface and the use package containing the useful classes to implement different type of operations needed to get and display the RSS news on the user interface Wittenbrink H 2005 _ Je HE Package Explorer 3 wl IRSSReader a 338 src 4 66 default package WA JRSSReader java a PP gui WA bout jawa WW Add Jawa WiConfiquration java wain jawa ebbbt wW Remowe jawa EE kons a DB use Constants java DB Operations java Feed jawa Htrml jawa Http jawa Update jawa Util iethods Jawa AMIProcessing jawa JRE System Library JawaSE 1 6 Ba Referenced Libraries SESEHERE Fig 2 JRSSReader class design The most important package from the application is the use package It contains the following classes Constants class constants needed in the application DBOperations class useful methods needed to work with the database Feed class needed to store feed
10. enu from the menu bar user can access the configuration window which must be set in order that the application work as expected As it could be seen the user must set the database name and its location the database authentication details and the main table Also the user can set the update type user defined update application updates news only when the user needs or boot update the application updates news every time it is started The user must note that the application cannot work if the database settings are set in the application and if them are not valid and in this case an error dialog message will inform him If the user wants to receive news from a certain site or Server he must receive from them the RSS URL This URL used in a web browser will display the news stored at that moment at that location 5 Add mE Add new RSS Tithe Description aga Category Add new category Category lame Fig 5 Add new RSS window Remove Ros Title RSS Description RSS Categorie Art Blogs bitto viwww feedzilla comrss Dlogs art Blogs S s tps ww eeczilla comirss blogsibu Business Celebrities Entertainment Finance crisis Health blogs Industry Blogs IT Blogs 9 i style Blogs Music Blogs 1 Politics Blogs 12 Products Programming Religion and Spirituality science society 7 EHEH Remove R55 Blogs Blogs Blogs Blogs i hitp iwww feedzilla comirss blo
11. gsipro Blogs Lo e me To do this operation automatically with the JRSSReader the user must add the RSS URL in the RSS database To do this user must select from the menu bar the Add submenu This submenu will open a window as it can be seen from the Fig 5 One must note that the URL is the most important property of the RSS Without a valid URL the RSS news cannot be accessed by the user Based on the RFC 1738 application will check every URL entered in the field Also another important field needed for adding a RSS is the title This RSS title must be very suggestive for user because the title will appear on the interface and it must be very representative for the news that will be received In conclusion title and URL are required fields in order to be able to add new RSS news in the application The new RSS can be added to an existing category by selecting it from the drop box or one can add a new category and then add the RSS to the new created category At the same time the application gives the possibility to remove any RSS added in the database User can remove an entire category of RSS or he can remove only some RSS by selecting them in the table Fig 6 To delete one or more RSS sites from a category one must select the category first and afterward he must select RSS from the table To select multiple RSS sites user must hold down the CTRL key and then with one click on the corresponding row s RSS feed he can
12. ing and Wikipedia By selecting a row from the table in which the RSS news are displayed the user can make a search on those search engines by the news title This feature is very useful to anyone because the application gives the possibility to find more information about the selected news by using this search The application search bar is used to find very easy news in the database by searching different keywords on the news title description or URL The filtered news is instantly displayed on the interface The application offers the possibility to export the selected news in one of the formats XML or HTML If one selects only one category or just an RSS and then selects one of the types of export files the JRSSReader will create on disk an appropriate file In Fig 4 it can be seen the resulting XML file obtained by selecting the category Art As it can be observed in the generated xml file the root node is the name of the category which was exported It s children nodes are feeds the nodes are also called feed which are stored in the database related to the selected category Each feed node format corresponds to the RSS version 2 0 format which can be very usefully because this XML document can be 4 JRSSReader Hie loos Help 3 G to W _ RSS Categories ja Alt Blogs gt Business v cJ Celetnilies EI Entertainment EI Events Ei Fun stuff EI Hobbies J Industry IT Music
13. ink icon starts an action which will open in the system s default web browser the feed URL The Update icon starts the updating sequence of all the RSS found in the database The interface will display the updates as soon as they are received and stored in the database Another important feature found on the icon bar is the search bar The application offers the user a search mode which can be very useful when the user wants to find information about specific keywords In the search text field user can enter to search single words multi words or phrases The keywords are search in the database on the specific field which can be selected from the combobox title description author URL All the results returned by the current search will be displayed by interface 2 3 Further improvements The lists of future improvements that will occur in future version of the application are the following e Automatically update the database after a certain period of time set by the user e Updating the database based on filters RSS only updated sites with a particular source from a particular author add to the database only those that are more recent than a certain date etc e Can perform searches in search engines Google Bing Yahoo and Wikipedia after other available fields source URL description etc e Create a log file where you can easily see any problems arising from the use e Creation of RSS sites in different formats
14. s properties Html class contains useful methods to merge two HTML files and to export news in a HTML format using a template Http class contains methods needed to make a connection to an URL Update class extends Thread class and it is used for updating news XmlProcessing class used to create XML documents parse and extract data from them and UtilMethods class containing all the other methods needed for application development The main JRSSReader window can be seen in the Fig 3 As one can see the main window is quite simple easy to use and very intuitive On the left side of the window one can see a JTree component which contains categories stored in the database Each category contains RSS titles and the news from them could be seen by expanding the node corresponding to the selected category The feeds table from the right of the window is updated every time a RSS category or RSS title are selected As one can see the table contains only some information about each main feed feed title the publication s feed the feed source and URL feed By selecting a row in this table a row representing a feed from the database will immediately display in the JEditorPanel database all information related to that feed An example can be seen in Fig 3 Also one can observe the icon bar from the top of the application On this bar there can be recognized some icons of the most important and used search engines Yahoo Google B
15. select all the desired sites The application allows the deletion of a category by selecting it and then pressing the appropriate button 1 e the button Remove categ Roo URL http www feedzilla com rss blogs cel htpviwww feedzilla comirss blogs ent httpiwww feedzlla comrss blogs fina htpviwww teedzilla comrss blogsine _ httpvwww feedzilla comirss blogsiind http www feedzilla comrss blagsiit httpwww feedzilla comrss blogsvlife httowww feedzilla comrss blogs mu httpiwww feedzilla comirss blogs poll http www fecdzilla convrss blags pro Remove Categ Fig 6 Remove RSS window mee ee Fig 7 Icon bar When the user presses the button Remove categ a new message will appear which notifies that if he wants to delete the category the application will delete all RSS sites in the database corresponding to the category Help menu allows the user to have access very quickly to the application JRSSReader User Manual By simply accessing the menu it will open the application manual in PDF format Observation The JRSSReader Manual can be found in the application directory path application_folder config JRSSReaderUserManual pdf At the top of the window one can see a useful toolbar icon This bar can be seen in the Fig 7 Functionality of each icon present on the bar is described as follows gt re Update icon pressing this icon will start
16. unter D 2007 Beginning XML 4th Edition Programmer to Programmer Wiley Publishing Sauers M 2010 Blogging and RSS A Librarian s Guide Wittenbrink H 2005 RSS and Atom Understanding and Implementing Content Feeds and Syndication Packt Publishing NotePage Inc 2010 RSS Specifications available at http www rss specifications com rss tools htm
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