Java XML

The Java programming language XML APIs from Sun Microsystems consist of the following separate programming APIs:

• Java API for XML Processing, or JAXP.
• Java API for XML Messaging, or JAXM.
• Java API for XML-based RPC, or JAX-RPC.
• Java API for XML Registries, or JAXR.
• Java API for XML Web Services, or JAX-WS.
• Java API for RESTful Web Services, or JAX-RS.
• Java API for XQuery, or XQJ.
• Java Architecture for XML Binding, or JAXB. – (this is its official Sun name, even though it is an API, see [1])
• STreaming XML processing, or StAX (compatible with JDK 1.4 and above, included in JDK 1.6).

Only the Java API for XML Processing is a required API in Enterprise Java Beans Specification 1.3.

A number of different Open Source software packages implement these APIs:

• Xerces – One of the original and most popular SAX and DOM parser.
• Xalan – XSLT/XPath implementation, included in JDK 1.4 and above as the default transformer (XSLT 1.0).
• Saxon, alternative highly specification compliant XSLT/XPath/XQuery processor (supports both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0)
• Woodstox – An open source StAX and SAX (as of version 3.2) implementation.

External links

• Java technology for XML - Sun's page.
• StelsXML JDBC driver - JDBC driver for XML files.
• Woodstox - Woodstox home page.
• How To Schema Check Xml Via JAXB - Rob Austin