RSS and Atom
This book is about building applications with those blog technologies. For
the sake of the cynical developers in the audience, we start with a few use sto-
ries that show some truly new ways of collaborating using blog technology.
Then, we explain what you need to know about blog technology--and not just
RSS
and Atom. We also cover blog server architecture, blogging
API
s, and web
services protocols.
To help you get started, we've included what amounts to a blog technology
developer's kit, including a complete blog server, newsfeed parsers, a blog client
library and, in part 2, ten immediately useful blog applications, or blog apps, writ-
ten in Java and
C#
. The blog server and the ten applications, known as the
Blogapps server and Blogapps examples, are both maintained as an open source
project at http://blogapps.dev.java.net, where you're welcome to help maintain
and improve them.
I hope we've provided everything you need to start building great blog appli-
