XBinder News

This release added a number of new features including improved support for Android, support for Java ME and 1.4, and support for Visual Studio 2010. In addition, the run-time source code for Java and C# is now included in every licensed package.

XBinder features now include:

Direct support for the subset of Java used on the Android platform.
The capability in C/C++ to generate client programs with OpenSSL support.
The capability to parse XSD 1.1 syntax (although currently no support for new XSD 1.1 features is provided).
Code can now be generated in four different languages: C, C++, Java, and C#.
Cross-platform GUI's for XML schema editing and compilation as well as a wizard GUI for guiding new users through the code generation process.
The XBinder Editor GUI (XBEditor) now makes schema composition easier by adding auto-completion. Schemas can be checked for validity using an interface to Xerces C++.
Support for UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1. It is now possible to read and write documents in any of these formats.
Improved support for WSDL/SOAP including support for SOAP 1.2
Support for encoding documents in XML canonicalization (C14N) format
Mixed content is now supported through the use of a free-form text fields
Configuration options added to allow customized mappings of XSD types to C/C++ types
Option added to use the C++ STL string class instead of the built-in string class
zlib deflate function calls to compress/uncompress XML text can now be added to generated reader and writers

XBinder has been run against the W3C XML Data Binding Conformance Test Suite. The results are available at the following URL:

http://www.obj-sys.com/w3cdatabinding/report_xbinder_c_1.4.html