Today, I created several servlets that generate RSS feeds from dynamic data in tables. In order to view the data in another page, it made sense to use a simple portlet. When creating the definition, just make sure that you allow for a single parameter, the feed URL, when defining the provider.<\/p>\n
This seems to work fairly well, and I have already created several versions that display the data differently. When I get time, I hope to update that code using CSS to format the data, but that will wait for another day.<\/p>\n
\r\n<%@page contentType="text\/html; charset=UTF-8"%>\r\n<%@page import="oracle.portal.provider.v2.ParameterDefinition"%>\r\n<%@page import="oracle.portal.provider.v2.render.PortletRenderRequest"%>\r\n<%@page import="oracle.portal.provider.v2.http.HttpCommonConstants"%>\r\n\r\n<%\r\n PortletRenderRequest pReq = (PortletRenderRequest) request.getAttribute(HttpCommonConstants.PORTLET_RENDER_REQUEST);\r\n ParameterDefinition params[] = pReq.getPortletDefinition().getInputParameters();\r\n String sURL = "";\r\n try {\r\n sURL = pReq.getParameter("p_url");\r\n \r\n if (sURL == null || sURL.equals("")) {\r\n System.out.println("sURL could not be determined");\r\n sURL = "http:\/\/www.weather.com\/weather\/today\/Castle+Rock+CO+80104?cm_pla=city_page&cm_ite=cc&site=city_page&cm_ven=LWO&cm_cat=rss&par=LWO_rss";\r\n } \r\n } catch (Exception e) {\r\n System.out.println("Error:" + e.getMessage());\r\n }\r\n\r\n out.println(rssfeedconsumer.mypackage.RSSReader.getFeed(sURL));\r\n%> \r\n<\/pre>\nYou may be wondering where the java code is that generates the actual feed. I can post that later, but for those that want this now, here is a link from the site that I based my code from.<\/p>\n