Eric mentioned in IRC today that he's had a lot of luck with the xstream
libraries - we could also try that.

- Jen


On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Jen, I'll take a look at it this weekend!
>
> On Feb 15, 2008 9:20 AM, Jen Bourey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I've mavenized our code and dropped it into
> > https://www.ja-sig.org/svn/sandbox/WeatherPortlet/branches/yale-yahoo.
> > It's not very well commented, but it should build and run under both
> > up2.6 and 3, and I'm more than happy to answer any questions that come
> > up.  If any of it proves useful as an example or otherwise, that's great,
> > and if not, that's OK too.  I've enjoyed using jaxb and I think I'd
> > encourage it's use with AccuWeather.
> >
> > I did strip out the part that generates the current conditions tooltip,
> > since other people may be using a different version of dojo in the portal,
> > or might not be using dojo at all.
> >
> > - Jen
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >  Jen,
> > >
> > > Is the the source of your portlet available anywhere? Would you mind
> > > committing it to a branch in /sandbox/WeatherPortlet ...? I'm sure this
> > > could be useful for development.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dustin.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Jen Bourey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > This looks fantastic!
> > > >
> > > > At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB
> > > > to unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data 
> > > > in a
> > > > JSP page.  I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the 
> > > > html in
> > > > the RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the 
> > > > presentation,
> > > > as well as the ability to display more data.  We've been pretty happy 
> > > > with
> > > > that approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get 
> > > > locations
> > > > for international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even 
> > > > more
> > > > data.  I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to
> > > > display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted.
> > > >
> > > > Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here:
> > > > http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet.
> > > >
> > > > - Jen
> > > >
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