Problem: Wie erzeuge ich einen RSS-Feed mit Rome und Spring MVC

Lösung:

Man lädt sich Rome und Spring Modules herunter und packt beide Jars in seinen Classpath.

Danach erzeugt man einen RSSView:

public class RSSView extends AbstractRssView
{
	private static final String[] FEED_TYPE = {"rss_0.90","rss_0.91","rss_0.92","rss_0.93","rss_0.94","rss_1.0","rss_2.0","atom_0.3"};	

	private static final DateFormat DATE_PARSER = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

	private String description;

	/**
	 * Generates the Feed.
	 */
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	@Override
	protected void buildFeed(Map model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, SyndFeed feed)
	{
		feed.setFeedType(FEED_TYPE[6]);

		feed.setTitle("Peters Feeds");
		feed.setLink(getBaseUrl());
		feed.setDescription(description);

		SyndImage image 	= new SyndImageImpl();
		image.setLink(getBaseUrl());
		image.setUrl("URLTOIMAGE");
		image.setDescription(description);
		image.setTitle("Peter");
		feed.setImage(image);

		List entries = new ArrayList();
		SyndEntry entry;

		entry = new SyndEntryImpl();
		entry.setTitle("Rome v1.0");
		entry.setLink("http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome01");
		entry.setPublishedDate(DATE_PARSER.parse("2004-06-08"));
		description = new SyndContentImpl();
		description.setType("text/plain");
		description.setValue("Initial release of Rome");
		entry.setDescription(description);
		entries.add(entry);

		entry = new SyndEntryImpl();
		entry.setTitle("Rome v2.0");
		entry.setLink("http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javawsxml/Rome02");
		entry.setPublishedDate(DATE_PARSER.parse("2004-06-16"));
		description = new SyndContentImpl();
		description.setType("text/plain");
		description.setValue("Bug fixes, minor API changes and some new features");
		entry.setDescription(description);
		entries.add(entry);

		feed.setEntries(entries);

	}

	public void setDescription(String description)
	{
		this.description = description;
	}

}

Anschließend erzeugt man den dazugehörigen Controller:

public class RssFeedController implements Controller
{

	@Override
	public ModelAndView handleRequest(HttpServletRequest arg0,
			HttpServletResponse arg1) throws Exception
	{

		return  new ModelAndView("rSSView");
	}
}

Als Letztes verdrahtet man alles in seiner dispatcher.xml:

...
RssFeedController

	

	

	
	
...

… ab Version 3.0 des Springframework kann man das ganz einfach so machen.