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planetjdk.org now publishes syndication feeds

By popular demand Planet JDK now publishes both an RSS feed and an Atom feed.

The Atom feed is in the version 0.3 format (sorry Tim); I'll set up an Atom 1.0 feed just as soon as ROME supports that version, which hopefully will be fairly soon.

As I mentioned previously, Planet JDK is open to anyone who's contributed code into the Java SE Development Kit. If you've contributed a Mustang fix and your blog isn't listed on planetjdk.org then drop me a note and I'll add it.

Announcing planetjdk.org

Many members of the JDK Community are active bloggers, but there's no one place where you can go to find their blogs. Quite a few can be found on java.net, but lots of Sun employees have blogs elsewhere—most often on blogs.sun.com—and of course non-Sun employees have blogs all over the web.

To help address this problem I've hacked up a simple aggregator and put it up on the web at planetjdk.org. I didn't have to write much new code for this since the ROME project already does the heavy lifting of parsing syndication feeds in all of their splendiferous complexity. It's still a little rough around the edges—it doesn't publish aggregated feeds itself yet, for example, but that will come soon. It's running, naturally, on the very latest Mustang build.

I've populated planetjdk.org with feeds for all of Sun's Java SE bloggers. I've also added feeds for the blogs of anyone who's contributed a fix to Mustang—at least insofar as I could find them via Google. If you've contributed a Mustang fix and your blog isn't listed on planetjdk.org then drop me a note and I'll add it.

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