Let's say I have a directory of gadgets that users might want to run on my site, entered only by URL. I want to display more information about each gadget to the user so they can make a choice about which gadgets they might want to run - so, I would want to extract information from the XML such as author name, thumbnail, description.
So far, I have ripped out bits of code from GadgetRenderingServlet.java, doing most of the same things as the /ifr servlet except for actually rendering the gadget. This seems to work, and even uses the same cache I think. But I just thought there must be a better way? If not, is it worth adding a class to do this? I've decided to build the whole site in Java so that I can do things like this. I'm not sure what I'd do if I was using another language for the rest of my site. Thanks for any guidance! Dan
