| Tools update: Morphon XML Editor, IBM Web Services Toolkit, Perl XML-DBMS
A round-up of recent XML tools announcements:
Morphon XML editor beta 7 has been announced by Lunatech. The new version includes bugixes and adds the following features:
- Plugin Views and support for customization for them in the
CSSEditor
- improved CSS support and CSSEditory
- support for catalog files
Morphon is a Java application, and is available for free in a time-limited demo form.
IBM's Web Services Toolkit allows the construction of web applications using SOAP, NASSLE (IBM's service description language), and WDS (their language for describing "non-operational characteristics of services". The toolkit also contains a broker with a SOAP API for discovering and publishing service details. The toolkit runs on the Java platform, and requires IBM-SOAP 1.2 and Xerces 1.0.3.
Ron Bourret announced Nick Semenov's port of Bourret's XML-DBMS to Perl. XML-DBMS is middleware for transferring data between XML documents and
relational databases, originally developed in Java.
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