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Java programming language Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers ''write once, run anywh ...

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...

APIs developed by

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

consist of the following separate computer-programming APIs: *

Java API for XML Processing In computing, the Java API for XML Processing, or JAXP ( ), one of the Java XML Application programming interfaces, provides the capability of validating and parsing XML documents. It has three basic parsing interfaces: * the Document Object M ...

, or JAXP * Java API for XML Messaging, or JAXM *

Jakarta XML RPC Jakarta XML RPC (JAX-RPC; formerly Java API for XML Based RPC) allows a Jakarta EE application to invoke a Java-based web service with a known description while still being consistent with its WSDL description. JAX-RPC is one of the Java XML progr ...

, or JAX-RPC — formerly Java API for XML Based RPC deprecated for Java API for XML Web Services *

Jakarta XML Registries Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR; formerly Java API for XML Registries) defines a standardization, standard API for Jakarta EE application software, applications to access and programmatically interact with various kinds of metadata registry, metadat ...

, or JAXR — formerly Java API for XML Registries *

Jakarta XML Web Services The Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS; formerly Java API for XML Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API for creating web services, particularly SOAP services. JAX-WS is one of the Java XML programming APIs. Overview The JAX-WS 2.2 specificatioJSR 224 ...

, or JAX-WS — formerly Java API for XML Web Services *

Jakarta RESTful Web Services Jakarta RESTful Web Services, (JAX-RS; formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API specification that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural pattern. ...

, or JAX-RS — formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services * Java API for XQuery, or XQJ *

Jakarta XML Binding Java XML Binding (JAXB; formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding) is a software framework that allows Java EE developers to map Java classes to XML representations. JAXB provides two main features: the ability to ''marshal'' Java objects into ...

, or JAXB — formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding (this was its official Sun name, even though it is an API, se

* StAX, Streaming XML processing, or StAX (compatible with JDK 1.4 and above, included in JDK 1.6) Only the

(JAXP) is a required API in

Enterprise Java Beans Jakarta Enterprise Beans (EJB; formerly Enterprise JavaBeans) is one of several Java APIs for modular construction of enterprise software. EJB is a server-side software component that encapsulates business logic of an application. An EJB web co ...

Specification 1.3. A number of different

open-source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Op ...

packages implement these APIs: * Xerces — One of the original and most popular SAX and

DOM Dom or DOM may refer to: People and fictional characters * Dom (given name), including fictional characters * Dom (surname) * Dom La Nena (born 1989), stage name of Brazilian-born cellist, singer and songwriter Dominique Pinto * Dom people, an et ...

parsers *

Xalan Xalan is a popular open source software library from the Apache Software Foundation, that implements the XSLT 1.0 XML transformation language and the XPath 1.0 language. The Xalan XSLT processor is available for both the Java and C++ programming ...

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XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text or XSL Formatting Objects, which may subseque ...

XPath XPath (XML Path Language) is an expression language designed to support the query or transformation of XML documents. It was defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and can be used to compute values (e.g., strings, numbers, or Boolean v ...

implementation, included in JDK 1.4 and above as the default transformer (XSLT 1.0) *

Saxon The Saxons ( la, Saxones, german: Sachsen, ang, Seaxan, osx, Sahson, nds, Sassen, nl, Saksen) were a group of Germanic * * * * peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...

— alternative highly specification-compliant

XQuery XQuery (XML Query) is a query and functional programming language that queries and transforms collections of structured and unstructured data, usually in the form of XML, text and with vendor-specific extensions for other data formats (JSON, bin ...

processor (supports both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0) * Woodstox — An open-source

StAX Streaming API for XML (StAX) is an application programming interface (API) to read and write XML documents, originating from the Java programming language community. Traditionally, XML APIs are either: * DOM based - the entire document is read in ...

and SAX (as of version 3.2) implementation

External links

StelsXML JDBC driver
- JDBC driver for XML files.
Woodstox
- Woodstox home page.
How To Schema Check Xml Via JAXB
- Rob Austin

- Learning xml in java.