Introducing iSport.eu
May 13th, 2008 by Stefan Fußenegger | Published in Wicket | 4 Comments
iSport.eu is a simple but hopefully useful website for people like me who spend several hours a week to get the latest football (American readers: feel free to replace the word ‘football’ with ‘soccer’) news from the major European leagues. iSport.eu is kind of an RSS reader, that adds some nice features (well, at least I like them):
- no need to explain your less tech-savvy friends what the hell RSS is and why it is useful (RSS is only used for content retrieval, not for publishing)
- auto-tagging of entries
- grouping of entries into different categories (i.e. teams) – get only the news for your favorite teams.
While this tool currently is focused on football news, it could be used for everything that comes with a news feed.
Depending on the feedback, future enhancements could include:
- Display only news from your favorite news portal
- Create your personal set of categories and sources (not into football? create your personal hockey news site!)
- Ratings and comments
- Tag clouds – every web-2.0-ish site has to have those
- Mark entries as “read”
- More languages (currently English, German, Italian, Spanish and French are supported)
iSport.eu is built on Java, Wicket, Spring, Hibernate, Derby, Jetty, Commons-Digester and about 10 days of manpower.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:47 pm (#)
Is it an open source project that I could find somewhere? I read the port “http://cwiki.apache.org/WICKET/seo-search-engine-optimization.html” and I would like to check how the whole application is implemented.
Thanks in advance
January 11th, 2010 at 3:58 pm (#)
Sorry, the application isn’t open source (and was discontinued). I could send you some source on a consultancy-job-basis. Please let me know if you’re interested.
August 31st, 2011 at 7:19 pm (#)
Hi!
regarding the previous question:
How were you able to handle/configure an url like http://isport.eu/en/premier-league/liverpool-fc/news-19-2008-0.html ?
Did you implement your own url coding strategy?
Can I get that piece of software?
September 1st, 2011 at 8:44 am (#)
Yes, we had to do quite a bit of URL coding customization here, including changes to some core classes which isn’t recommended. Additionally, as it’s been a while since we retired this project I’d have to search our archives for the corresponding code. I’d rather recommend going for Wicket 1.5 which adds a lot of flexibility to the whole URL coding process.