http://xmlhack.com/ Developer news from the XML community en-us Edd Dumbill (mailto:webmaster@xmlhack.com) Edd Dumbill (mailto:editor@xmlhack.com) Copyright 1999-2001, xmlhack team. http://xmlhack.com/images/mynetscape88.gif http://xmlhack.com News, opinions, tips and issues concerning XML development http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1917 The open source projects Proteus and Babeldoc both announced new releases. Although they look very different (one is a "framework", the other is a "system"), both are written in Java, support XML, EJBs and JDBC databases and do not hide the fact that EAI is their vocation. E-Commerce Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1887 The Apache Web Services Invocation Framework team announced the first open release of their Apache WSIF API. Protocols Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1784 Sun has released version 0.7 of their JAXB (Java Architecture for XML Binding) specification introducing a partial -and controversial- support for W3C XML Schema. Schemas Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1783 Elliotte Rusty Harold has announced a new tree-based XML API, XOM (from the generic term XML object model), which he describes as "closest in spirit to JDOM" and representing an "effort to synthesize the best features of the existing APIs while eliminating the worst". Java Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1706 Pankaj Kumar has announced XPB4J, a tool for measuring and comparing XML parsing/processing performance. Java Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1704 The Apache XML Project Xerces-J team have announced version 2.0.2 of their Java-based XML parser. Apache Java http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1681 Adrian Mouat has released diffxml and patchxml, new open-source Java-based utilities for diff'ing and patching XML files. Java Tools http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1647 Damien Guillaume has published JAXE, a new XML editor, written in Java and published under the GPL, for users who want something more than "yet another XML editor with a tree interface". Tools Java