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JIDE Feed Reader
The
JIDE Feed Reader is a component that can
subscribe and
display RSS feeds. Imagine you are a software provider
providing a tool to millions of users. Every time you do
a new release, you want to somehow notify your users.
You can post news on your website but not many people
check your website regularly. You can email a newsletter
which means you need to have their email addresses. Even
if you do, how often your newsletters will be filtered
by your users’ junk email filter? Or you can have
your own network protocol and let your tool talk to your
server when it starts. If there is anything new, notify
your user through a flashing button in the user
interface. This works better than using newsletter or
web page, but do you realize RSS can be used for this
exact purpose and you don’t need to waste your
precious time writing a new network protocol for it?
That’s what JIDE Feed Reader for – to enable
the usage of RSS inside your application. JIDE Feed
Reader is a Swing component which means you can embed
this component inside your application so that your
users will always be kept in sync with the content you
want to them to know, from product releases, critical
upgrade notification, company news, even product tips
and tricks.
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