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The XML:DB API is an attempt to bring an ODBC or JDBC style access API to native XML databases. The goal being to bring interoperability to native XML database applications and to lower the learning curve for XML database development. The first public release of the reference Java implementation of the API has just been made available. It is available from the XML:DB API project website. http://www.xmldb.org/xapi. The reference implementation is basically a very simple file system based native XML database and is an easy way to get familiar with the API. Full source code is available under an Apache style license. Included with the reference implementation are some Java driver development tools, including a set of base driver classes and an early release of a test suite. Java implementations of the XML:DB API exist for dbXML [1] and eXist [2]. An implementation is also under development for Ozone [3]. The API has reached the point where the core design is complete and the details required for interoperable implementations are being hammered out. Anyone interested in implementing the API is encouraged to participate in the project. The open source databases are already well covered so I'm very interested in seeing implementations for the commercial databases. The API is intended to be language independent, but most early work has been done in Java. Implementations in other languages are also of great interest. [1] http://www.dbxml.org [2] http://exist.sourceforge.net [3] http://www.ozone-db.org Kimbro Staken XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
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