Magpie RSS is a feed parser written in PHP. It’s easy to use and does what you want it to do. And as long as you’re using PHP (and PHP is working right) you’re golden.

Unfortunately, I need something just like Magpie RSS, but for JSP.

I’ve found two articles from 2003, one titled Using RSS in JSP pages and one titled RSS Utilities: A Tutorial. That first one mentions the Informa RSS Library for Java which looks interesting, but also worries me because 3 months ago their news page had this:

We started working on the next Informa, which will besides other modernisations based on Hibernate 3 and no longer depend on XDoclet. The core code is going to be refactored, expect therefore that your old database scheme will have to be upgraded.

Yeah, that makes me want to dig into it today…. sigh…

(And don’t bother looking at the RSS JSP Tag Library as that project seems to have been around for more than 2 years without releasing anything.)

Any suggestions?

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I somehow came across this post titled New Feedster Site…New Features! and since Feedster has sucked for so long, figured I’d give it another try.

I try a search for "rasterweb" and get a page showing 10 results. The first is for a spamblog. The next 6 are old podcasts I did in 2004, but don’t come from my feed, but from a feed named “Med 2 Lecture Test Podcast” that appears to have stolen my feed. Next is an actual link to this site and something I wrote!. We end the page with 2 more spamblogs. Is the purpose of Feedster to show you which spamblogs are stealing your content?

If I had any doubts before, I’m pretty sure now that Feedster is dead.

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