News

The XBean team is proud to annouce the new 2.6 release of XBean.

This release includes a number of bug fixes and improvements.
See the change log for more informations.

XBean 2.6 is available from public repositories:

• http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/xbean/

The XBean team is proud to annouce the release of XBean 2.4.

The main new feature is Spring 2.0 support (starting from m5), a long awaited feature.

XBean 2.4 is available from public repositories:

• Maven 1 repo: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/org.apache.xbean/
• Maven 2 repo: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/xbean/

Note that a bug has slipped in this release, see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XBEAN-21.

Craig has a great post which describes how XBean can really help provide a customized XML language with Spring XML configuration extensibility. We're really happy with it so far and have moved away from XSLT and custom DOM processing to the simpler XBean model in ActiveMQ and Jencks with ServiceMix to follow suit real soon now.

Whats cool is we've just about got a working XBean Ant Task to auto-generate the configuration, the XSD and HTML documentaiton now. e.g. here's the current ServiceMix generated documentation.