XMLBeans News

Download the latest release here.

New features in this release (for a more complete list of changes see CHANGES.txt).

• Finer grained support for CDATA
• Upgraded support for Saxon 9
• Added more fine-grained control over XML to Java name mapping
• Add support for JVM-supported encodings
• Bug fixes

Advanced XPath and XQuery support is provided through Saxon-9.0.0.4.

XmlBeans 2.4.0 is still compatible with JDK 1.4, xmlbeans-qname.jar is required on classpath of your application alongside xbean.jar

Download the latest release here.

In order to run XmlBeans 2.3.0 with JDK 1.4, it is necessary to add xmlbeans-qname.jar on the classpath of your application alongside xbean.jar

Because XMLBeans 2.3.0 is designed to be used with Saxon-8.8 for XPath/XQuery support and because Saxon is not backwards-compatible, it is strongly reccomended that if you use Saxon-8.6.1 with XMLBeans, you upgrade to Saxon-8.8.

Few of the improvements in this release (for a more complete list of changes see CHANGES.txt).

• Added options to handle serialization of CDATA sections
• Improved XQuery support by updating to SaxonB-8.8
• Numerous bug fixes

As menitioned earlier, as of the 2.2.0 release, XMLBeans has been updated to use Saxon-B version 8.6.1 for (untyped) XPath/XQuery support.

Important! The Saxon DOM support (which XMLBeans uses) has been moved to a separate jar file - saxon8-dom.jar. Which means that now the jars that you need to have on the classpath for XPath/XQuery support are:

• saxon8.jar
• saxon8-dom.jar
• xbean_xpath.jar

To download Saxon-B, go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon, click the "download" link and then choose Saxon 8.6.1 from the list of files. Make sure you look at the license, which is MPL (Mozilla Public License) 1.0.

Download XMLBeans 2.2.0

These are a few of the improvements in this release for a more complete list of changes see CHANGES.txt

• Updated to the latest XMLSchema.xsd - January 25, 2006
• Updated XmlBeans to work with SaxonB-8.6.1 in place of SaxonB8.1
• XQuery external variable binding support

The first dot release in the V2 line is now available from your favorite mirror.

Download XMLBeans 2.1.0

This release contains a few small features that you may find useful, along with the usual assortment of bug and performance fixes. See the list of changes at CHANGES.txt

The XMLBeans team is happy to announce the availability of XMLBeans V2. Download it from you favorite mirrror and check it out!

Here's a short list of improvements in this release:

• Improved XQuery/XPath integration - Both XQuery and XPath on XMLBeans are now fully integrated. XPath and XQuery expressions can return other XMLObjects, or they can be executed using an XmlCursor instance, in which case you manipulate the results using a cursor.
• DOM Level II Support - DOM Level II support is now implemented natively so that you can handle the underlying XML in the DOM style. You can switch between DOM, XmlCursor, and XmlObject (either untyped or typed). This improves performance and reduces the memory footprint over Version 1.
• Extensions - You can now add custom functionality to generated XMLBeans. You can pass to the Schema Compiler 1) an interface that defines the set of methods to implement and 2) a static handler that implements this functionality. The generated classes will implement the interface and, for each method, call out to the static handler.
• Improved Error Handling - This version adds error codes and ensures message consistency. In addition, fail-fast behavior is provided for simple types, while access to the post schema validation infoset is made available during validation.
• Performance - Performance has been improved across the board. Native DOM support improves performance and memory footprint; XML parsing is now by default performed by Piccolo, a high performance parser; incremental compilation of only modified artifacts has been added; and the performance of the XmlCursor implementation has been greatly improved.
• JDK 1.5 Generics - Generated classes now optionally take advantage of JDK 1.5 Generics. Note that JDK 1.4 continues to be supported.
• XML Instance/XSD Generation - You can generate a sample XML instance from schema using the xsd2inst tool (which uses the SchemaInstanceGenerator class). You can also generate a schema from an instance using the inst2xsd tool (which uses the Inst2Xsd class).

The Apache XMLBeans project is pleased to announce new releases of XMLBeans available for download: 2.0.0-beta1, 1.0.4, and 1.0.4-jdk1.3.

The 2.0.0-beta1 release is a significant improvement from previous release and has been in development for about 10 months. The 1.0.4 release is a maintenance release focused on stability and bug fixes. The 1.0.4-jdk1.3 release is the first release of XMLBeans compatible with JDK 1.3.

Major goals of the 2.0.0-beta1 release:

• source backwards compatible
• improve usability of wildcards, substitution groups, error handling
• a native DOM level 2 API
• integration with Saxon xpath/xquery engine
• performance improvements
• instance to schema and schema to instance tools

For a comprehensive list of improvements, see the CHANGES.txt file in the distribution.

Apache XMLBeans Team has released XMLBeans Version 1.0.2. Download version 1.0.2 from the Source and Binaries section.

Apache XMLBeans is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the XML project.

Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.