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Java Today has an article on rolling your own vs. buy - an old argument, actually. The "Huh" part for me came here:
He changes the too frequent parsing of the feed that he described in his first article by adding "a new class to handle the selective updating of feeds based on the provided update information." In the second half he creates a blog roll using " the JSTLforEach tag to loop through the feeds, creating a list of links to the home pages for the feeds. For good measure, we also print the dates of the feeds, so we can see when each one was last updated."
Huh? Why would I be parsing xml when I create a feed? I have an actual object model here - the blog entries are all objects - I push a static xml file out whenever there are new entries/updates/comments, and have the server create XML from the objects using a Sax driver. Having the static feed files reduces load on the server as well. As to update times, well - that's part of the object model I created for the entry objects. As to the blogroll, that's a list of what I read on a normal basis (i.e., created by hand) - not a list of things I happened to link to....
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