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Wednesday Apr 14, 2004

Javablogs 1.2 using Informa.

Charles Miller posted an interesting write-up on the recent Javablogs 1.2 improvements. I found it especially interesting that Javablogs now uses the Informa RSS parser, which takes the strict XML approach to RSS feed parsing - if the XML is invalid it ignores the feed. They are considering using Mark Pilgrim's ultra-liberal feed Universal Feed Parser which is much more forgiving, but it is written in Python and may need to be run in a separate process. Wouldn't it would be nice if Informa provided ultra-liberal parsing capabilities? Hmmm... I wonder... how hard would it be to port Pilgrim's parser to Jython?

Lucene in Action

JRoller blogger Otis Gospodnetic is working with Erik Hatcher on a book about the Lucene search engine. BTW, Roller's search feature is powered by Lucene.

Gosling responds

James Gosling responds to criticism of the Sun-Microsoft settlement and on Stallman's latest anti-Java jabs. I like his responses and I think it is great that he is using his weblog to respond, but his responses don't really shed any light on the partnership and technical cooperation aspects of the deal.

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