Heading to the Polls: Polling RSS Feeds with Informa

We just showed how Informa can retrieve data from an RSS channel, using the ChannelBuilder class. Ideally, updating your copy of the feed should be an automated process, and Informa can also do this. The Poller class (located in the de.nava.informa.utils.poller package ) can periodically poll a Channel object's RSS feed and trigger some action whenever there are changes. By default, this polling occurs every 60 minutes but can be configured to use longer or shorter periods. The Poller class works by notifying an observer object whenever something changes in the feed. To use this process, ...

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