Editing XML data binding (section)

==XML data binding frameworks==

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! Name
! Programming Language
! License
! First release
! Last stable release
! Code generation from XSD
! Custom mapping
! Note
|-
| [[Apache Commons]] Betwixt
| Java
| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache]]}}
| {{start date|2003|01|28}}
| 0.8
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| Dormant. Serializes objects to XML without requiring an XML schema definition
|-
| [[Apache XMLBeans]]
| Java
| {{free|[[Apache License 2.0]]}}
| 
| 5.1.1, {{start date|2022|08|29}}
| {{yes}}
| {{unk}}
| 
|-
| [[Castor (framework)|Castor]]
| Java
| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache 2.0]]}}
| 
| 1.4.1, {{start date|2016|05|15}}
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| Earlier versions also supported Java-to-SQL persistence but this has since been forked into a separate project
|-
| [[CodeSynthesis XSD]]
| [[C++]]
| {{GPL-lic}} and proprietary
| 
| 4.0.0, {{start date|2014|07|22}}
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| with SAX or tree-like mapping into C++ classes
|-
| [[gSOAP]]
| [[C (programming language)|C]] and [[C++]]
| {{GPL-lic}} and proprietary
| {{Start date and age|2000|12|08}}
| 2.8.131, {{start date|2023|09|23}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Supports XML schema, WSDL, and SOAP; XML schemas are not required to serialize C/C++ data to XML; custom mapping of XML schema types to C/C++ types via a type mapping file and from C/C++ types to compatible XML schema types by source code annotation
|-
| [[Java Architecture for XML Binding]] (JAXB)
| Java
| ?
| 
| 
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| 
|-
| [[JiBX]]
| Java
| {{free|[[BSD License]]}}
| 
| 1.2.6, {{start date|2015|01|01}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| Maps classes to XML schemas via bytecode manipulation
|-
|[[Liquid XML Studio|Liquid XML Data Binder]]
|C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.Net, Visual Basic 6 (COM)
|Freeware and proprietry
|{{Start date and age|2001|6|1}}
|{{Start date and age|2024|06|18}}
|{{Yes}}
|{{Yes}}
|Supports XML schema (XSD), DTD, XDR,  WSDL. Serializes XML to JSON and JSON to XML.
|-
|[[Liquid XML Studio|Liquid XML Objects]]
|C# and Visual Basic .Net (Supports XSD 1.1)
|Freeware and proprietry
|{{Start date and age|2019|03|03}}
|{{Start date and age|2024|06|18}}
|{{Yes}}
|{{Yes}}
|Direct replacement for XSD.exe. Integrated within [[Visual Studio|Microsoft Visual Studio]]. Supports XML schema (XSD 1.0 and XSD 1.1), DTD, WSDL. Serializes XML to JSON and JSON to XML.
|-
| [http://simple.sourceforge.net/ Simple]
| Java
| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache 2.0]]}}
| 
| 2.7.1, {{start date|2017|02|09}}
| {{no}}
| {{yes}}
| 
|-
| System.Xml.Serialization
| C#
| ?
| 
| 
| {{yes}}
| {{no}}
| Part of the .NET framework, contains XML data binding classes; includes <code>xsd.exe</code> tool to generate classes from XSD schema
|-
| [[xmlbeansxx]]
| C++
| {{free|[[Apache License|Apache 2.0]]}}
| 
| 0.9.1, {{start date|2008|04|01}}
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| C++ port of Apache XMLBeans
|-
| [[XStream]]
| Java
| {{free|[[BSD license|BSD]]-style license}}
| {{Start date and age|2004|01|01}}
| 1.4.10, {{start date|2017|05|23}}
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| Also capable of serializing to JSON
|-
| [http://zeus.ow2.org/ Zeus]
| Java
| ?
| 
| 3.5 beta, {{start date|2002|08|16}}
| {{unk}}
| {{unk}}
| 
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