Archive for January, 2009

JRecordBind 2 has been released

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

JRecordBind 2 is the JAXB of fixed-length files: using XML Schema to describe their structure, it’s able to both produce and consume them, letting the developer focus on the real task, that’s what to do with the data.

This is the final release, ready for production use.

I’ve asked the java.net admins to graduate the project, and I’m waiting for their reply.

Anyway the URL won’t change, so it’s safe to bookmark:
https://jrecordbind.dev.java.net/

JRecordBind goes Jaxb

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

The current stable version on JRecordBind (rev 58) is deprecated: the new version is on its way to stable status!

JRecordBind-2 will be based on JAXB: forget the .properties file and start describing the hierarchy of your fixed length file with XML Schema!

For what I want it to do now, it’s feature complete. It needs a refactoring, since the code is the ugliest I’ve ever written. Once done, I’ll update the documentation, announce the final release and ask java.net admins to get me out of the incubator.

Stay tuned!