Apache XML

Category of projects at Apache


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::summary Category of projects at Apache ::

Apache XML is a category of projects at the Apache Software Foundation that focus on XML-related projects.

Active projects

  • Xerces: An XML parser for Java, C++ and Perl

  • Xalan: An XSLT stylesheet processor for Java and C++ which implements the XPath query language.

  • Forrest: A standards-based documentation framework

  • XML-Security: A project providing security functionality for XML data

  • XML Commons: A project focusing on common code and guidelines for XML projects

  • XMLBeans: An XML-Java binding tool

Projects related to webservices

  • SOAP: Is an old implementation of the SOAP. This project based on IBM's SOAP4J implementation. It should no longer be used for new projects. Instead you should favour the Axis implementation.
  • XML-RPC: Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC, a protocol that uses XML over HTTP to implement remote procedure calls.
  • Axis: Apache Axis is the current implementation of the SOAP for Java and C++. It is the successor for the SOAP project.
  • WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework is a simple Java API for invoking Web services.

Deprecated projects

  • AxKit: An XML-based web publishing framework in mod_perl
  • Crimson: A Java XML parser derived from the Sun Project X Parser
  • Xang: Framework for rapid development of dynamic server pages in ECMAScript (JavaScript)
  • Xindice: A native XML database

References

References

  1. (August 2023). "Projects by category".

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