Feeds are used to convey collections of data and documents over HTTP to applications and generic readers. Feeds are also useful for Web data synchronization. This site provides up-to-date information about feed technologies developed at Oracle.
What's New
AtomDB: A Transparent Offline Mobile Database for Web Apps
A White Paper about AtomDB and the benefits of developing seamless online/off-line applications
Web Interface To Synchronization (BITSY) API: version 0.5.0
BITSY enables seamless on-line/off-line access to a programmable cache of HTTP resources.
This can be used for flexible Web data synchronization.
Technical Information
Mobile AJAX: Going Far Without The Bars
This paper describes an architecture for developing seamless online/off-line applications.
AtomDB: A Technical Paper
A brief technical paper describing AtomDB and how to use it in applications.
AtomDB: Frequently Asked Questions
A collection of answers to frequently asked questions about BITSY and AtomDB.
Standards
The Atom Syndication Format
This IETF RFC defines the standard metadata and other syntactical requirements of XML feeds.
The Atom Publishing Protocol
This IETF RFC defines a standard set of HTTP operations that can be performed on Atom feeds.
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