RSS and Atom

This book shows developers how to build applications using blog technolo-
gies. Part 1 explains the fundamentals of blog technology, including blog and
wiki server architecture,
RSS
and Atom newsfeed formats, the MetaWeblog
API
, and the Atom protocol. Once we have the fundamentals out of the way,
we focus on building applications. Each chapter in part 2 is devoted to one
immediately useful blog application.
You will find a more detailed roadmap and introduction to the book in
chapter 0, "What you need to know first."
Who should read this book
This book is intended for developers and
IT
innovators who need to under-
stand blog, wiki, and newsfeed technologies. If you'd like to add newsfeed-
reading capabilities to your applications or newsfeed-generation capabilities
to your web sites, this is the book for you. If you'd like to automate the process
of publishing to the Web, you'll find this book very useful. If you've been asked
to deploy blog and wiki technologies and want to understand blog and wiki
server architecture before selecting software, you'll find the answers you need
here. And if you're just looking for new ideas and opportunities, you'll find a
wealth of those here as well.
For most of the chapters, we assume that you understand web development
with Java or
C#