A while back I was looking for some interesting examples for our short tutorial. I came up with the idea of a simple feed viewer served by an OSGi feed service. But I didn’t want to do some example that gathers dust after a few months. So I started creating a real new feed viewer for Planet Eclipse in parallel.

But the new Planet Eclipse Feed Viewer doesn’t require an OSGi service. Well, that would have been a little bit over-engineered. Instead it reads the feed XML from the server and parses it and assembles the page in your local web browser. The webmasters will love it because it scales so easy.

I’ve created a few screenshots to summarize the new features.

• The overall page design has been optimized.
  
• The side bar has been restructured to allow a better presentation of events and to give the “Add Your Blog” section a better position.
  
• A multi-feed feature has been added to allow special event feeds and to prepare for multi-language content.
  
• A nice about dialog has been added.
  
• Dates can now be collapsed. By default, only the current date is expanded to make the page less cluttered.
  

I’ve also created a wiki page for collecting more ideas and your feedback. Oh and the old website is still available.

Let me know what you think!

Unfortunately, the code changed too much. It’s no longer suitable for a patch. I created a complete new code base that still uses some parts of Googlipse but a lot stuff was rewritten. I decided to make a public release available to gather some feedback. Please feel free to post your comments here or drop me a few lines in a mail.

You can grab it from my update site here and watch an introduction screencast here. The source code is available here. Bugs and feature requests can be reported on the project website at Google Code. I’ve also created a mailing list for discussions.

Update 2006-08-21

I’ve uploaded a new build. For a list of fixed issues you might want to try this query. Unfortunately the query is incorrect because Google seems to have problems when the milestone label contains numbers (i.e., searching for label:1.1BETA2 doesn’t work).

Update 2006-09-18

I’ve uploaded beta 3. For a list of fixed issues you might want to try this query.

Update 2006-11-11

Comments are now closed. Please report bugs and feature requests on the bug tracker or discuss the plug-in in the GWT group at Google Groups.

Update 2007-01-03

This is the last update to this blog posting. From now on I’ll post all updates to the change log hosted here.