Java XML is a set of separate application programming interfaces (APIs) originally developed by Sun Microsystems to allow Java programs to work with XML-structured data.
API definitions Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) Jakarta XML RPC (JAX-RPC) — formerly Java API for XML Based RPC deprecated for Java API for XML Web Services Jakarta XML Registries (JAXR) — formerly Java API for XML Registries Jakarta XML Web Services (JAX-WS) — formerly Java API for XML Web Services Jakarta RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) — formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services Java API for XQuery (XQJ) Jakarta XML Binding (JAXB) — formerly Java Architecture for XML Binding (this was its official Sun name, even though it is an API, see ) StAX (Streaming XML processing) — compatible with JDK 1.4 and above, included in JDK 1.6
Only the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) is a required API in Enterprise Java Beans Specification 1.3.
Implementations A number of different open-source software packages implement these APIs:
Apache Xerces — One of the original and most popular SAX and DOM parsers Apache Xalan — XSLT/XPath implementation, included in JDK 1.4 and above as the default transformer (XSLT 1.0) Saxon XSLT — alternative highly specification-compliant XSLT/XPath/XQuery processor (supports both XSLT 1.0 and 2.0) Woodstox — An open-source StAX and SAX (as of version 3.2) implementation
References
External links StelsXML JDBC driver - JDBC driver for XML files Woodstox - Woodstox home page How To Schema Check Xml Via JAXB, by Rob Austin Java EE and web framework tutorials - Learning XML in Java