* memory leaks when reloading Web applications. Consider: 1) patching rome
* fetcher sources and adding Connection: close to request headers, 2) using
* Apache HttpClient, 3) using manual fetch of the syndication feed.
*/
final SyndFeed feed = feedFetcher.retrieveFeed(new URL(url));
final SearchEngineResponse response = new SearchEngineResponse();
// The documentation does not mention that null value can be returned
// but we've seen a NPE here:
// http://builds.carrot2.org/browse/C2HEAD-SOURCES-4.
if (feed != null)