Both the
Cocoon
project
and the
Castor
project have made bug fix releases available.
The Cocoon
project (which is a sub-part of the Apache XML project) has
made
available
the 1.7.3
release
of thier XML publishing framework. This release doesn't
incorporate any significant new technology but includes lots
of bug fixes, new examples and improved documentation. This
may be one of the last releases in the 1.X development path.
The Cocoon team has been devoting more and more of their
efforts to the 2.X development tree and hope to have a beta
release available in time for Java One in
June.
The Castor project
(which is sub-part of the Exolab
project) has also made available the 0.8.4
release of thier data mapping software. Castor supports
mappings between Java objects, XML documents, SQL databases
and LDAP directories. Castor provides multiple styles of
for peforming the Java/XML
mapping. It supports
both a Java-centric approach where existing classes are
used to generate XML document types and an XML-centric
approach
where an XML schema is used to generate Java classes.