A lot of users might have already heard me speaking about the next major version of
RSSOwl in emails or the forum and wondered why there is no more information available here.
Other people might have wondered why there hasn't been a RSSOwl 1.3 for the past year.
Well, sorry for not blogging about this important news earlier, I am going to give you some
details in this news!
Actually the idea to work on a completly new RSSOwl was born back in Summer 2005. At that
time it became clear to me that it was very hard to catch up with the features of other
readers without redesigning everything. I teamed up with another developer (Ismael) to work
on RSSOwl 2 from scratch. Our main goal is to provide a newsreader that is powerful, easy to
extend and easy to use. We chose the
Eclipse Rich Client Platform as framework and db4o as
powerfull database to store all the news. In combination with the well-known full-text search
engine Lucene, we are able to implement exciting new
features.
I will announce more details about a preview version for all to play with later this week. You
will be able to either use RSSOwl 2 as standalone application, or add it as extension to your
Eclipse.
If you are attending the EclipseCon, I will be there
too, giving a demo on RSSOwl 2.0 on Wednesday.
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