Chapter 10. Project 7: Hot News Sheet
If you’re like me, you start your day by sitting down to work and opening a suite of web sites, trying to get a sense of what’s going on in the world. In particular, I like to find both what’s deemed popular by the mainstream media, as well the more democratic and populist views of the weblog community.
In this chapter, you’ll build an application using RSS to provide a single web page showing what’s hot from the mainstream news and the weblog universe, side by side. The application will additionally fold in results from a Google search on these topics for yet another angle on the news.
Presenting the News
One of the interesting things about this particular application is
that it makes a series of calls to a number of servers, and, therefore,
can easily take 15 to 20 seconds to completely populate the data from
the various systems. This is far too long for any user to wait for a
page to load (and indeed, most web browsers will time out after this
long a delay). Therefore, when the application first starts, it displays
a notice to the user, as shown in Figure 10-1. This notice is
returned to the user immediately, and the news is fetched on another
thread (in this case, using the built-in JDK java.util.TimerTask service).
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As shown in Figure 10-2, after the data has been loaded, the viewer can see the results of the search. ...
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