Apache XMLBeans™

Welcome to XMLBeans!

Layout of the tree:

• README.md: this file
• build.gradle: gradle build file for building XmlBeans code and utilities
• STATUS: essential info about the project
• xbeanenv.cmd: sets the XMLBEANS_HOME environment variable on Windows
• xbeanenv.sh: sets the XMLBEANS_HOME environment variable on Unix
• bin: contains useful command-line scripts for Win and Unix
• docs: contains several documentation files
• javadocs: API documentation
• maven-plugin: source and documentation on using the xmlbeans2 Maven plugin
• samples: contains ... samples
• src: the source code for XmlBeans, organized by area
• test: contains test cases and infrastructure
• xkit: contains the README file for the binary distribution

To quickly get started run:

• “gradlew jar” to build XmlBeans or
• “gradlew tasks” to see the most useful build targets or
• “cd bin” and then “<tool_name> -help” for a description of what the tool does and what parameters it accepts

For further information check out:

• https://xmlbeans.apache.org
• https://wiki.apache.org/xmlbeans
• ./samples/<sample_name>/README.txt for running samples
• ./test/docs/* for running tests

XMLBeans depends on the following external libraries:

• log4j-api [https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/] for logging
• javaparser-core (O) [https://github.com/javaparser/javaparser]
• Saxon-HE (O) [http://saxon.sourceforge.net/] for XPath/XQuery in XmlBeans

(O) means that the library is optional

For licensing information, see LICENSE.txt

Updated: 1 January 2024.