RSS Reader is a simple Java library for reading RSS and Atom feeds. It has zero 3rd party dependencies, a low memory footprint and can process large feeds.

https://github.com/w3stling/rssreader

Reasons:

• Zero dependencies unlike ROME which has dependencies on JDOM etc
• Up to date last commit 3 weeks ago vs Rome which seems inactive
• This should be transparent to most users as Rome was used in the component and not exposed.
• Has special handling for Apple Itune Podcast RSS feeds
• Does not XML parse but manually parses the documents to prevent previous XML related security issues like https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-33813