Am Wed, den 07.04.2004 schrieb Joerg K. Wegner um 8:35:
> Hi again,
>
> IMHO: the software design depends heavily on the requested features, so
> getting a stable release and and feature oriented software design can
> not be viewed seperately. If igoring such think the project will have
> probably a lot of dead-end's.
There is no dead end in such a small project like "rssview". saintedlama
has done an excellent job and reimplemented major parts of the project.
We have always tried to keep the design general. We will take care of
new features and a new RSS/RDF parser is a good idea. Don't worry about
it.
I have looked at the informa API docs. It looks nice and in some
points somehow to our model-component. It also implements parts
of the controller-component structure we need.
> I've added a rudimentary CML2 support to Informa.
> Niko want to check the code before he checks it in ... furthermore there
> are some open questions i want to discuss with him, especially the
> storing format and possibly transfer possibilities to GUI's or HTML !?
I don't think that it is a big problem to transfer the feed contents
to HTML. Let the GUIs decide how they want to do it. Earlier, I had
StyledDocument instead of HTMLDocument, because HTML is many
times slower.
> The design of Informa is excellent and has a lot of exporters and
> backends, e.g. DB support using Hibernate (do not know exactly what this
> is :-)
We will take a look if DB-storage can fix our problems. Does
the persistance component work in informa? How do they handle
the different types of objects, you can have in RSS?
> This is in contrast to your parser a DOM-Parser, but IMHO i think this
> works for RSS feeds very well, or is it really necessary to have a SAX
> parser for such tasks ! I think the files aren't that big :-)
Actually, I prefer the DOM model. I don't remember why I made it
like it is now. I guess I found two types of feeds and wanted
to read them both with one parser.
> An update functionalty seems to be available also, furthermore there is
> a JSP support for Informa available !
How does this help us? We are on client side?
> I've not found a suitable GUI using Informa so i would be really happy
> if you will use it !
Do you know Informa and rssview enough to make it work together? If
you are really interested to make a proof of concept, message me.
Martin
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