Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hey guys,

I'm 3rd semester student in Business Information Systems. I've already learned some basic Java in university, but yet I've never really programmed something useful.
Now, I want to develop my first application, which is at least a little useful. It fetches an RSS 2.0 feed from the internet, which contains holidays. Then my application parses the feed and extracts the dates from the feed. In the following, those dates will be inserted into an Oracle database.
So how can I fetch and parse the RSS feed and what libraries do I need ?
I've searched in the internet and found the following libraries, which could be suitable for this, but I've no idea which one I should really use:
* JAXP (SAX / DOM)
*http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javaserverpages/rss_utilities/index.html
* https://rome.dev.java.net/

I'd really appreciate any kind of help,

regards Samir