Sun Microsystems offered projects to students few months back. Most of the projects were like addons to the Sun Open Portal. Portlets are something similar to Google gadgets. These gadgets communicate with the outer world with the help of the portal. I too was interested in writing a portlet but i didn't know which one! After sometime I came to know about Web 2.0 mash ups. Which used RSS feeds to a great extent. I decided to write a program to read RSS feed from any site and extract the contents from it. Initially i parsed the RSS (Which is an XML file) to read it. But i came across ROME which performs the same operation much more efficiently.
ROME stands for "Rss and atOM utilitiEs". More interesting was the punch line, which said "All feeds lead to ROME" Apt for what it does!! The reason why i posted about ROME is, RSS and XML have become very important nowadays and most of us have registered for the IBM Great Mind Challenge which involves extensive usage of JDOM for XML and ROME for RSS feeds. So I thought of sharing this, hope this is of some help.
