XBinder is an XML Schema to C/C++, Java, or C# Data Binding Tool. XML data binding is a process in which XML schema information items are transformed into type definitions and functions in a computer language.
The source code produced by the XBinder compiler is C, C++, Java, or C# source code that consists of type definitions and encode/decode functions. This provides a complete Application Programming Interface (API) for working with all of the message definitions contained within an XML schema specification.
In addition to the compiler, a run-time library of common encode/decode functions is also part of the package. This library contains routines to encode and decode the base XML schema simple types (integer, string, hexBinary, etc.). The XBinder compiler assembles a series of calls to these functions to accomplish the encoding or decoding of more complex message types.
Evaluation versions are available for Windows, Linux, various UNIX platforms, and Apple Mac OSX.
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The complexity of producing well constructed, reliable class libraries from XML schema can challenge any projectOCOs timeline and staff productivity. The XBinder XML schema data binding tool substantially streamlines and simplifies a projectOCOs development and maintenance time by automatically serializing objects into XML and deserializing XML into C, C++, Java, or C# objects.
Why Use XML Data Binding?
XBinderOCOs XML data binding offers the following advantages over traditional XML API's such as SAX and DOM:
Performance - Operations such as validation or (de)serialization are faster with code generated from XML schema then with validating parsers.
Simplicity - XBinder automates production of well constructed, easy-to-read code for faster time-to-market cycles.
Reliability - XML data binding applications assure the validity of generated XML documents by working at the schema level.
Release notes: New Release<br/>Java / C# Code Generation:
TE The major new feature added in this release is the addition of code generation in both the Java and C# programming languages. This code generation is modelled along the same basic lines as C++; therefore, a consistent object-oriented interface is provided across different langauge types making it easier to port applications to different environments.
Support for Different Derivation Models in C++:
TE There are now two distinct derivation models that are fully supported for handling XSD complexContent derived types in C++. The 'extended' model is the model that existed in older versions of XBinder and is the more natural model for dealing with complexContent extensions. However, 'extended' was found to not cleanly support all use cases of XSD complexContent types (in particular, certain types of restrictions) so the 'interface' model (similar to a Java interface) was added to flatten the structure to support all cases. In this release, the derivation mode... <br/> [
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