May 2006, the XMLBooster website has been updated, both in form
and in content.
6 January 2006, XMLBooster-generated parsers can now be accessed
from within Python through
an interface partially generated by
SWIG.
15 June 2005, XMLBooster now generates version management in
Swing GUI's, allowing one to view the differences between
XML instances, measuring distances between instances, and even,
merging conflicting sets of changes just as CVS does for text files.
7 March 2005, the C# code generated has been extended significantly
for better integration in existing .NET projects and to reduce the
impedance mismatch with hand-written C# code.
1 October 2004, An XML parser generated in C# is usable
from within IronPython, the Python interpreter/compiler written
for the .NET platform. This provides the best of both worlds: the
performance level of schema-specific parsers with the flexibility
of a dynamic scripting language.
12 November 2003, New releases are made available automatically
to registered customers through RainCode online.
1st September 2003, The GUI generation facility has been greatly improved,
to support user-defined colour coding of elements of the code generator.
10 June 2003, XMLBooster for C# has been released.
10 February 2003, Version 2.5.9 has been released. It includes
a new grammar construct PERM, to define permutations, where sub-elements
can occur in any sequence.
December 2002, XMLBooster is now available through
a new web-based application. It handles registrations
and purchases, an will be extended to support maintenance contracts
and bug tracking in the near future.
October 2002, The freely available
XMLBooster Lite 2.5.0 includes the ability to generate
Swing-based GUI's from meta-definitions. These GUI's can
be used as is, or can be integrated as components
in your applications
royalty-free.
This GUI generation facility available in XMLBooster Lite
is a restricted version of
what the commercially available XMLBooster/GUI provides,
in the sense of extensive customization of the generated GUI.
18 July 2002, version 2.4.25 has been released,
and includes a number of new interesting features,
including improved schema support, support for
default values, support for whiteSpace facet
handling, improved parsing (up to 45%) and
unparsing (up to a factor 3) performance for
Java.
31 May 2002, the Swing GUI code generator
has been improved in numerous ways, including the ability
to generate an explorer-like treeview on the data structure,
in addition to the form view it supported so far.
30 April 2002, XMLBooster for Ada has been released.
14 january 2002, the XMLBooster documentation has been updated extensively.
The latest version is available for download.
22 december 2001, the first version of the Swing GUI code generator
has been used internally, to generate a GUI to edit XMLBooster's own
meta-definitions
14 november 2001, the XMLBooster site has been
entirely redesigned.
24 october 2001, the XMLBooster DTD support has been
extended and improved.
2 october 2001, GBE (Grammar by example)
is now available, in order to build an XMLBooster meta-definition
automatically out of a number of sample XML instances.
"We use XMLBooster as a fast prototyping tool. The data model is turned
into a working GUI in less than a minute, and the final user can validate
the resulting application and provide feedback instantly."
Laurent R., Financial markets, France
"Using these strongly typed interface is so productive when compared with
DOM parsers, I can't believe anyone still contemplates Xerxes for
serious work."
John F., Financial markets, Canada
"The scripting facility has allowed us to automate the entire compilation chain,
from schemas to optimized parsers."
Michel M., Insurance, France
"We now generate GUIs for every XML schema we have, just in case."
Nicholas P., System integration, USA
"XMLBooster-generated GUI's have slashed our development
times. And they can be customized to better suit the
needs and tastes of our customers. A great product!"
Chris C., Document management, USA
"It works like magic. I just don't have to worry
about the XML issue any longer, I can concentrate
on my application"
John W., System integrator, Netherlands
"XMLBooster is so fast, it solved all our performance
problems"
Alain de N., Belgium
"As far as I know, XMLBooster is the only decent
solution to integrate XML in COBOL applications"