Updates
I have had a busy weekend, updating and improving this site.
First, I got the details down on implementing a search function for this blog, using the Apache Lucene search engine. As noted earlier, I have been wanting to get this done for some time and you can now see the result in the menu on the left. The way in which Lucene is used on these pages is illustrated by the class diagram shown below.
Next, I have deployed ROME - Rss and atOM utilitiEs - to generate a RSS 2.0 syndicated web feed from recent blog entries. ROME required a small work-around, since there is a problem with the encoding of the generated XML (in ROME v. 0.5).
ROME uses the
method. Unfortunately, any set encoding is not used by the ROME parser, so usage of this method is to no avail. Luckily, ROME can output the generated feed to a JDOM
object (
object can then be outputted to XML, using JDOM's
The hack goes something along these lines:
/* Generate feed using ROME API prior to this */
SyndFeedOutput output = new SyndFeedOutput();
Document doc = output.outputJDom(feed);
String encoding = feed.getEncoding();
Format format = Format.getPrettyFormat();
format.setEncoding(encoding);
XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter(format);
outputter.output(doc, writer);
Finally, I decided to subscribe to the services offered by statcounter.com:
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It took me approx. five minutes to register, set up a project for this application and copy-paste the necessary bits of code into my pages. So far, it has been most informative.
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