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RSS and Atom

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- [Instructor] RSS and Atom. RSS, otherwise known as Really Simple Syndication in Atom, are XML based formats for delivering regularly updated web content. What type of examples would you see for something that's a regularly updated web content? Something like blogs, news, or podcasts. They allow users to subscribe to a feed and receive updates automatically. These formats differ slightly in a syntax, but serve the same process, syndicating content across platforms for easier access. Spring MVC simplifies the creation of RSS and Atom feeds through built-in abstractions like abstract RSS feed view and abstract Atom feed view. These both leverage the ROME library to generate well structured feeds. Here are the steps to create RSS or Atom feeds. Start by creating a controller method. So here I have an example of a feed controller with a RSS feed method that we are preparing our feed items, we're adding in some sample data, or fetching data from a database, and then we are adding items to…

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