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Rome reference

This page is part of a classified guide to news feed readers, including software tools for parsing news feeds. Each profile contains summary details of the feed reader, features, Web links and news feeds.

Rome profile

A Java application programming interface for processing RSS and Atom feeds and handling them through a generic feed data model.

Open source software. Requires the JDOM package.

Rome feature summary
Home page: http://rome.dev.java.net/
Feed URL: https://rome.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectRSS?type=news
Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
OPML import: No, cannot load feed lists from other programs.
OPML export: No, cannot save feed lists for other programs.
Auto-discovery: No, cannot find feeds on Web pages.
Web feed search: No, cannot search for feeds on the Web.
Local feed search: No, cannot search feeds on your computer.
News filters: No, cannot collect news items on chosen topics.
Watch lists: No, cannot highlight items that match key words.
Synchronization: No, cannot manage subscriptions from multiple computers.
Podcasts: No, cannot play audio and video feeds.

Rome identifiers

The Web Feed Generator provides customers with server logs to check demand for their news feeds. Each feed reader has its own code name or identifier that is reported in the server logs and shows which program was used to check a feed. To help make sense of these feed metrics, Rome is identified by the following code names.

Rome Client (http://tinyurl.com/64t5n) Ver: 0.7
Rome User Agent (http://rome)
  

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