Advanced Java
3 credits
| Comments placed in the source code file | 5 |
| Application placed in an executable JAR file | 5 |
| RSS XML Data loaded from web | 30 |
| RSS data parsed using a Java API (either the built in support or JDOM) | 40 |
| RSS News items displayed in a readable format | 20 |
| Total | 100 pts |
To use Java to work with XML data
RSS feeds that are available over the internet are specialized forms of XML documents. For this lab you will create a java application that can load, parse, and display an RSS feed in a desktop window.
For an example of an RSS feed look at http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot which is the news RSS feed for the popular website Slashdot. To be able to see the content of this feed well you might also look at the attached file below file which is a copy of the content of their feed in a text file. Your lab does not have to use this particular feed, any RSS feed should be able to work and your application only has to display information from one feed but that information should consist of multiple items.