Bill la Forge has announced version 3 of Quick, a tool that enables easy integration of XML documents into Java classes.
Previous versions of Quick required that users learn a schema language to describe the bindings between an XML document and a Java class. La Forge writes that:
Release 3 solves this problem with translators which will convert
a DTD to a usable schema, and which will convert a schema to Java code.
So now you start with something that works. And that is a big improvement
over what we had before.
Other changes in this new release include:
- Parser configuration handled by placing a text file in the classpath
which names the SAX parser of your choice.
- Default encoding is now ISO-8859-1
- 8 Quick Utilities, which also serve as examples of
how to use Quick.
Quick can be downloaded from La Forge's JXML web site. There is also online documentation and a forum.