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Asked: 2026-05-12T22:29:19+00:00

I am creating a desktop app that will create some reports. I want to

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I am creating a desktop app that will create some reports. I want to export these reports as RSS or ATOM feeds. I can easily create feeds with Rome lib for Java. But I have no idea how to spread them. I thought about embedding httpd into my app, but it’s bad idea, because a computer can be behind NAT or turned off.

I need some kind of “proxy” server, where can I push my feeds, and clients will be able to pull content from that server.

I can probable write server side app fore this, but first I’d like to find out if some dedicated solution is available for problems like this.

I was also thinking about using some blogging platform and using its API. What do you think about this approach?

One more thing I have to consider when choosing platform ability to handle lot of updates. Sometimes desktop app will be shut down but when it will be running, it generates quite a lot of updates.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out Google’s feedburner.

    EDIT

    Here’s a better link for their help / faq. You’ll still need to use some service to generate your feed, but it won’t have to handle a heavy load. Feedburner will poll your feed every 30 minutes and their servers will act as a proxy for your feed. As far as how to publish the feed for Feedburner to read, I would recommend writing a service to handle this, even more considering that you getting the data for the feeds from a number of desktop applications, and it’ll probably be easier to write a custom service to interface with them, store your data in a DB, and publish feeds than it would be to try and modify a blogging service for this purpose.

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