Day Ten

Today I've been looking at how this XML feed is going to work. It was quite interesting actually as I have never written a component of a distributed system before. Everything I looked at pointed towards this java glassfish which seems to provide java support for web services. The link I downloaded it from is as below:

http://java.sun.com/webservices/downloads/previous/gf-transition.jsp

The installation of it was a nightmare!! I had to run lots of command line statements some of which failed, the thing which messed me around most was that it was saying that I didn't have a JDK installed, it turned out in the environment variable the "\bin" part of the path was not needed.

I also downloaded a massive samples directory which will be of use when I get going on this properly as I have no idea how to use web services.

A useful link I found was:

http://www.petefreitag.com/item/465.cfm

http://feedvalidator.org/

These will be useful for the format of the feed.

Also I found useful information on the coding of the feed from:

http://www.vogella.de/articles/RSSFeed/index.html

I copied and pasted the package imports into eclipse to see if the installation of glassfish is what I need and if it was successful, all packages imported successfully.

import javax.xml.stream.XMLEventFactory;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLEventWriter;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLOutputFactory;

import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;

import javax.xml.stream.events.Characters;

import javax.xml.stream.events.EndElement;

import javax.xml.stream.events.StartDocument;

import javax.xml.stream.events.StartElement;

import javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent;