[Rsslibj-developer] RSS feeds: what are they good for?

[Alexander P. <ale...@gm...>]

Hi!

I'm a Java developer. I'm running a mid-sized site of job vacations and
would look to add such a modern feature there as RSS feed for current open
positions. We also have an additional system of news and events. I think it
also would be great to add an RSS feed there, too.

However, I'm not very good with RSS, it's nearly all I know that my
Thunderbird mail client can lookup different blogs using RSS and show up to
me. :) Would you advise me any resource to read or will give a brief
explanation of benefits of RSS feeds? I'd be very thankful for that.

I've visited http://enigmastation.com/rsslibj/ and found a short piece of
code there. But I'm a bit confused about channel.addItem () method. How muc=
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items should I show there? For example my job board has 1,000 open
positions. Should I list all of them there? This could be a pretty long
list.

I'd be thankful for your advices.

Thanks.

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Alexander Prohorenko.