XML APIs and Parsers

• DOM (Document Object Model)
  W3C
  The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The document can be further processed and the results of that processing can be incorporated back into the presented page. This is an overview of DOM-related materials here at W3C and around the web.
• Easy Java/XML integration with JDOM
  Jason Hunter and Brett McLaughlin
  JDOM is a new API for reading, writing, and manipulating XML from within Java code. In Part 1 of this series, Hunter and McLaughlin explained how to use JDOM to read XML from an existing source. In this final part, they focus on how you can use JDOM to create and mutate XML.
• Introduction to JDOM
  Elliotte Rusty Harold
• JAXP 1.1
  Brett McLaughlin; IBM developerWorks
  In this follow-up article on JAXP, Sun's Java API for XML Parsing, the author analyzes the newest version, 1.1, which includes updated support for the SAX 2.0 and DOM level 2 standards. With the addition of TRaX, JAXP 1.1 provides Java and XML developers an indispensable tool in writing vendor-neutral code for parsing and transforming XML documents.
• RAX (Record API for XML)
  Sean McGrath
• SAX (Simple API for XML)
  David Megginson
  SAX, the Simple API for XML, is a standard interface for event-based XML parsing, developed collaboratively by the members of the XML-DEV mailing list, currently hosted by OASIS.
• SAX 1.0: The Simple API for XML
  Michael Kay, Didier Martin, a.o.
  Chapter 6 of "Professional XML" covers the Simple API for XML, or SAX, interface. It explains why might you use it instead of the DOM, and will get you writing simple applications with SAX, as well as explaining a little bit about where it came from, and where it's going.
• SAX Navigator
  Takuki Kamiya; Fujitsu Limited
  SAX Navigator provides for forward-only, simple pull-model XML navigation APIs on top of any SAX2 implementations. With SAX Navigator, applications are able to progressively acquire data of its interest in XML easily without either suffering from arguably painful task of SAX programming or having to compromise its scalability by the use of memory-lavish DOM.
• TRaX (Transformations for XML API)
  Open Source
  This is of the home of the TRaX API for processors that implement XML tree transformations, and the XML Serialize API, which defines an interface for serialization for SAX events and DOM trees.

XML Data Binding

• Breeze
  Development environment for building XML-based business solutions. From a schema, Breeze creates Java 1.1/1.2 compliant code that allows a programmer to access the contents of a XML document like the properties of a standard JavaBean
• Castor
  Open Source
  Castor is the shortest path between Java[tm] objects, XML documents, SQL tables and LDAP directories. It provides Java to XML binding, Java to SQL/LDAP persistence, and then some more.
• From text to byte code - Data binding from XML to Java
  Brett McLaughlin
  Part three of this data-binding series shows you how to convert XML elements and attributes to Java objects using the mechanisms specified in JSR-031: Data Binding, the Sun Data Binding Specification Request. Part three covers unmarshalling the nested elements in the XML documents into Java objects, testing, and putting the new tools into action with some practical examples.
• Jato: The Java/XML Translator
  Open Source (NEW 26. April)
  Jato is an open-sourced, XML based non-procedural language for transforming any XML document to/from any set of Java objects. Non-procedural languages describe the operations to perform, leaving the algorithms for implementing the operations to an interpreter.
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)
  java.sun.com (NEW 30. July)
  JavaTM Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), it provides an API and tools that automate the mapping between XML documents and Java objects.
• JOX - Java Objects in XML
  Mark Wutka
  JOX is a set of Java libraries that make it easy to transfer data between XML documents and Java beans. You can think of JOX as a special form of Java Object Serialization, using XML as the serialization format.
• Koala Bean Markup Language
  INRIA
  The Koala KBML package enables to serialize/deserialize JavaBeansTM to/from XML documents. KBML stands for Koala Bean Markup Language.
• QARE
  Bill la Forge
  QARE is the Quick Agent Runtime Environment, a Java servlet-based environment for integrating XML with Java object processing.
• Quick
  Open Source
  Quick converts XML files into aJava object structure as specified by a QDML schema.
• Relaxer
  Asami Tomoharu
  Relaxer is the Java class generator that addresses a XML document complied with the XML model defined by RELAX.
• XML Data Binding Resources
  Ronald Bourret (NEW 26. July)
  This is a list of resources about XML data binding.
• XML Master
  IBM/alphaWorks
• XMLBinder
  4xt.org

Miscellanous Developer Software

• JDox
  Flashline.com
  JDox, an easily formatted, fully searchable XML version of Sun Microsystems's Javadoc program results.