Overview of Feed samples

Feeds are a mechanism to deliver content in a standardized specification format. Atom Syndication Format and RSS are two such specifications. Feeds support within WebSphere Application Server is supported using either of Apache Wink or Apache Abdera.

Apache Wink, in addition to being an implementation of JAX-RS, has in-built support for producing and consuming of Atom, APP (Atom Publishing Protocol) and RSS documents, and is the recommended library for Feeds support within WebSphere Application Server. Following are the advantages of Apache Wink over Apache Abdera:

The use of Apache Abdera as a feeds library within WebSphere Application Server is deprecated, and is documented here only for backward compatibility.

Feed Samples, and what they demonstrate

The Feed samples have been built to demonstrate the Atom and RSS support in Wink and Abdera. In addition, it also demonstrates Atom Publishing Protocol support. These are the specific scenarios that they support.