"The goal of the Apache Abdera project is to build a functionally-complete, high-performance implementation of the IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol (RFC 5023) specifications."
This project will mainly contain utility stuff for diverse purpose. Initially it will primarily comprise of Spring Utilities which will perform the following purposes:
Load a single resource properties file from pre-configured locations with priority based override.
Application context registrar to make the context available to other interested components.
Use Cacheable Jersey Client
Use a generic RESTful WS Client
OpenSearchDescriptor JAX-RS Provider based on XOM based DOM I/O
Useful utilities for Atom Syndication Feed, such as pagination over entities, retrieval of resource to certain depth, etc.