XML Beans

The Apache XMLBeans project is pleased to announce new releases of XMLBeans. The 2.0.0-beta1 release is a significant improvement from previous release and has been in development for about 10 months. The 1.0.4 release is a maintenance release focused on stability and bug fixes. The 1.0.4-jdk1.3 release is the first release of XMLBeans compatible with JDK 1.3.

Major goals of the 2.0.0-beta1 release:
  - source backwards compatible
  - improve usability of wildcards, substitution groups, error handling
  - a native DOM level 2 API
  - integration with Saxon xpath/xquery engine
  - performance improvements
  - instance to schema and schema to instance tools