The Eclipse RSS Reader plug-in allows the user to create RSS channels, connected to on-line RSS feeds, and then view the items they contain in several workbench views. Each channel can be updated from its source at regular intervals. The channel items can be browsed using configured link browsers.

Features:

• New Channel wizard allows you to create a new channel from an external RSS feed and save it as a file in the workspace.
• Channel Navigator provides a hierarchical view of the workspace, similar to the Resource Navigator, with projects, folders, and RSS channels.
• Channel Detail view displays a list of items belonging to the selected channel.
• Link Browsers, using the Channel Properties dialog, how to view the contents of channel and item links.
• Preference page allows you to specify the default channel update interval and select the default link browser, which are used when creating new channels.
• Property page with RSS-specific options, such as the update interval, source translator, and link browser.
• Search page allows you to use the familiar Eclipse Search dialog to find RSS items whose titles and/or descriptions contain the specified search term.
• RSS feed translators, which allows the various RSS views to present their contents in a uniform fashion.
• Periodic updates, for each channel you may specify an interval, in minutes, which dictates how often the channel's contents are updated from its source feed.
• Channel content caching, RSS channels are represented in the workspace as files, which contain information on where to get the updates, how often, etc.