Display RSS Feeds in JSPs with RSS4JSP
Thursday, December 11th, 2008I recently discovered the freshly released RSS4JSP tag library. Its a wrapper around the mature and widely used Rome RSS library which was developed by Sun and then open sourced. The library allows you to simply display (news) feeds inside your JSP pages.
While it’s certainly a young project, I found it very useful and easy to use. I gave it a try to create the Latest blog posts box on my, OpenCms based, homepage. The box was created during 5 minutes which I think is impressive (given that you have to type the HTML too).
Unfortunately the project does not allow the syndication of multiple feeds into one feed (This is a nice feature of Rome which I used in a recent project) but maybe it will be added in the future (or I will add it myself).
