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RSSOwl is a discontinued news aggregator for RSS and Atom news feeds. It is written in Java and built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the EPL-1.0 license, RSSOwl is free software.

Source code

RSSOwl is unmaintained and has several known vulnerabilities. Please do not use it any more. See 7 and 8 for details about maintenance. Furthermore, RSSOwl does not work with Java 9, but it may still work with Java 8.   some files for debian: outdated: for RSSOwl 2.0.4 RSSOwl on getdeb.net: maintained by Christoph Korn, Integration for facebook and Google mail: status? contact? german translation: see translation repository here completed/finshed: added some features to RSSOwl and did some academic coding forks on github.com:

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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Version 1.0
  • Version 2.0
  • Forks
  • Features
  • Format support
  • Organization
  • Security
  • Import and Export
  • Other
  • Internationalization
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

RSSOwl is a discontinued news aggregator for RSS and Atom news feeds. It is written in Java and built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform which uses SWT as a widget toolkit to allow it to fit in with the look and feel of different operating systems while remaining cross-platform. Released under the EPL-1.0 license, RSSOwl is free software.

In addition to its full text searches, saved searches, notifications and filters, RSSOwl v2.1 synchronized with the now discontinued Google Reader.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “RSSOwl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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