Roadmap

Suggestions for other features are welcome. Offers of help with use cases, examples and testing would be very much appreciated. Issues raised by users generally take precedence.

The 0.8.x release

The 0.7.2x version will be the last that is compatible with Java 1.4.2. No major new features will be added to this line, but defect fixes will still be applied.

The 0.8.x versions require J2SE 5.0 or later. In addtion, Saxon 8.9 replaces Saxon 6-5-5 in the default configuration.

• Features planned for the 0.8.* releases
• Enhancements to error handling and introduction of error codes.
• An XML schema for the ServingXML vocabulary
• Support xml type in parameters and fields.
• Enhancement to flat file signature elements to avoid buffering file in memory for signatures written to trailer records.
• Add an installer
• Extensions
  • An Apache POI extension to support reading and writing Excel worksheets
  • A saxon XQuery extension for reading "records" (documents)
  • Incorporation of web service components contributed by Robin Keith.
• Maven support.