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Hello all.
I have recently released version 0.2 of JXV, an
open source project aimed to convert Java objects into "XML views". Here is a
copy of the release announcement:
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I am pleased to announce the first public release
of JXV.
JXV is a library which allows for Java objects to be given "XML Views", and for those views to be read back into objects. JXV supports both SAX and DOM output, and can read XML input from any SAX-compliant parser. Resulting DOM trees are dynamic, and reflect changes made to the object model even after they were created. JXV fully supports namespaces in it's XML views, and can correctly parse and read XML content with namespaces. JXV uses a pluggable architecture which allows XML view factories to be configured and loaded at runtime. The JXV configuration mechanisms also leverage XML namespaces to allow the configurations for those different view factories to be inlined within the JXV configuration file. In this release, JXV comes pre-configured with view factories for JavaBeans, collections, array, and "flat objects" such as Strings, primitives, etc. These factories support a wide variety of configuration options, and are sufficient for most object models. Future versions of JXV will include pre-configured support for additional factories. JXV may also release special-purpose factories (such as ones providing views for RowSets, ResultSets and other JDBC structures) as extension packages. JXV is open-source and freely available in both source and binary form. It is covered by an Apache-like license (see information at the project page). The JXV distribution contains a compiled binary version as well as a buildable "src" dir (Ant is required to use the build script). -- end of quote
Note that shortly after this release I had released
version 0.2 with minor documentation improvements and JDK1.3 support (previous
version depended on 1.4 for some exception-related classes).
JXV's documentation as well as the latest releases can be found on http://jxv.sf.net.
I designed JXV particularly with XML-based web
publication frameworks such as Coccon (and noteably Maverick as well). I think
it serves the very important goal of providing a natural link from the "java
world" (no, not the magazine :) to the XML world. Unlike traditional XML
binders, JXV starts off with Java objects and only provides a "view" for them.
No particular requirements are placed on the objects. This design allows JXV to
be used naturally when you just want to put your business objects into the
XML flow along with the rest of your data sources. Since many applications
require complex model representation, and OO is a proven modelling technique for
such structures, I think the functionality JXV provides is
important.
I would be happy to try and help the Cocoon developers wire JXV
into Cocoon's existing architecture and see if it proves to be useful. If
anybody is interested in trying this, please contact me. Also any
questions/comments/suggestions are welcome.
p.s. I thought this message would be most appropriate in the developer
mailing list. I'm not sure exactly how you divide messages between this list and
the users' list, so if you think the users' list is more appropriate please
let me know.
Regards
Gal |
