##### Rome

- Overview
- How Rome Works
- Tutorials And Articles
- Releases
  - ROME 1.0
  - ROME 1.0 RC2
  - ROME 1.0 RC1
  - ROME 0.9 Beta
  - ROME 0.8 Beta
  - ROME 0.7 Beta
  - ROME 0.6 Beta
  - ROME 0.5 Beta
  - ROME 0.4 Beta
  - ROME 0.3 Beta
  - ROME 0.2 Beta
  - ROME 0.1 Beta
- ROME Development Proposals

##### Project Documentation

- Project Information
- Project Reports

## ROME 0.5 Beta

### What is New, Highlights

- Removed common package and classes from the public API
- Removed Enum class, using constants now
- XmlReader now has a lenient behavior for charset encoding detection
- Bug fixes
- ROME T-Shirt (rome)

### Dependencies

- J2SE 1.4+
- JDOM 1.0

### Downloads

- rome-0.5-src.zip
- rome-0.5.tar.gz
- rome-0.5.zip
- rome-0.5-src.tar.gz
- rome-samples-0.5-src.tar.gz
- rome-samples-0.5-src.zip

### Additional Information

- Tutorials
- Changes Log
- Inside ROME, How Things Work
  - How ROME Works, Understanding ROME, a detailed overview by Dave Johnson (This doc is based on ROME v0.4)
  - ROME Plugins Mechanism, bootstrap, adding and changing parsers, generators, converters and modules
  - Feeds Date Elements, how Date data is mapped to SyndFeed and SyndEntry
  - Feed and Entry URI Mapping, how SyndFeed and SyndEntry 'uri' properties map to concrete feed elements
  - XML Charset Encoding Detection, how ROME helps getting the right charset encoding
  - Creating a custom Module, creating all necessary pieces, bean, parser and generator
  - The CopyFrom interface
- Implementation documents
  - ROME bean utilities, equals, toString and clonning

### Known Issues

None.