Codehaus XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework. Codehaus XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.

StAX is a standard XML processing API that allows you to stream XML data from and to your application. This StAX implementation is the standard pull parser implementation for JSR-173 specification.

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again. Features: Ease of use, no mappings, performance, clean XML, no modifications to classes, integration with XML libraries, full object graph support, customizable conversion strategies.

Woodstox is a high-performance XML processor. It implements StAX (Streaming Api for Xml, JSR-173), and supports XML 1.0 and 1.1(including full DTD validation), XML Namespaces 1.0 and 1.1. In addition to core Stax 1.0 API, Woodstox has extended API for pluggable bi-directional validation, both using DTDs (in-built), and external validation modules (for Relax NG, W3C Schema, using Sun MSV). With version 3.2 Woodstox also implements SAX API for improved interoperability.

Castor is an open source data binding framework for Java. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-relational persistence, and more.

Jaxen is an XPath engine that can be applied to multiple object models, including W3C-DOM, JDOM, dom4j, and XOM.

A simple tool to generate a static web site. It utilizes Sitemesh and Freemarker for site generation and has a plugin infrstructure on NanoContainer and PicoContainer basis.

The Milyn Project is focused on providing tools for performing Data Analysis and Transformation (both XML and non-XML). The primary component in the Milyn Project is "Smooks". Smooks is a tool for performing "Fragment Based" data Analysis and Transformation, with support for data/message "Profiles".

XHarness is a system test harness for Apache Ant 1.6.x. It allows people to describe their product/system tests in the form of XML as part of an ant build file, describing the tasks and processes that comprise the test cases and what their expected behaviour is. It has powerful process management capabilities, that extend the existing Ant process tasks (exec, java) to allow asynchronous execution of java and native processes (e.g. for client-server tests), synchronization between multiple processes and complex assertions on process and task output (stdout/stderr, file output, coupled with timeouts, etc.). It also has the concept of a "service" that encapsulates the necessary infrastructure for testcases to run (e.g. a Webserver) and adds a number of other useful tasks to the Ant framework, like environment sets and an equivalent to the Unix "which" command. XHarness tests are executed by the Ant framework and the output produced by all tasks and the test results are captured. In that respect, XHarness works similar to the Ant junit task in that it runs testcases and tasks/processes associated with these tests and at the end produces an HTML summary of the tests, listing the result of each testcase as well as the output of the testcase's tasks and processes.

StaxMate is a light-weight framework that adds convenience to streaming XML-processing without significant additional overhead. It builds on top of Stax-compatible XML processors such as Woodstox , and offers two basic abstractions: cursors, which build on XMLStreamReaders, and output objects, which build on XMLStreamWriters.

Enunciate is a web service deployment framework (not another web service stack implementation). Enunciate provides a mechanism to build, package, and deploy your web service API. Enunciate compiles your source code and generates a web app that includes user-level documentation, a consolidated WSDL, SOAP endpoints, REST endpoints, JSON endpoints, client code, etc.

SXC stands for Simple XML Compiler. It allows you to compile optimized xml parsers and writers for various frontends.

The project targets the Reference Implementation of JSR235 - Service Data Objects. The current source code while mature enough to be included in shipped BEA products is not yet finished as a JSR reference implementation. Links: - Current SDO specification - currently v2.1: http://osoa.org/display/Main/Service+Data+Objects+Specifications - JSR 235 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=235