Online documentation for RSSClient

Generated 2006-03-17

Simple client and viewer for monitoring RSS feeds.

Description

Allows you to subscribe to an RSS feed. Provides a simple window for displaying the feed as a browsable HTML page.

The results from an RSS feed are returned in a Hashtable array representation, with each hashtable containing the attribute/value elements of the channel.

Configuration

Although this component requires no configuration as such, if your network requires you to access the web through a web-cache/proxy, then the component must be used in a java environment where web-cache/proxy access has been configured properly (eg jvm caching properties set).

Usage

Once you have located an RSS feed that you wish to access in this component, copy the URL of the feed into either

the url property of the component
the url field in the GUI launched by the component (you need to click go after doing this)

The component will then fetch any available news items from this feed, and will

place them on the messages property of the component
make them available through the GUI

Clicking on a link in the GUI rendering of a news item will cause the URL of this link to appear on the browserURL property of the component.

Technical Details

This currently requires library rsslib4j (rsslib4j.sourceforge.net)