Nux 1.5 review

Nux is an open-source Java toolkit making efficient and powerful XML processing easy

License: BSD License File size: 16543K Developer: Wolfgang Hoschek

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Nux is an open-source Java toolkit making efficient and powerful XML processing easy. It is geared towards embedded use in high-throughput XML messaging middleware such as large-scale Peer-to-Peer infrastructures, message queues, publish-subscribe and matchmaking systems for Blogs/newsfeeds, text chat, data acquisition and distribution systems, application level routers, firewalls, classifiers, etc.

Have you ever tried to take advantage of a robust and natural commodity Java tool set for XML, XQuery, XPath, schema validation, binary XML, fuzzy fulltext similarity search and related technologies, yet were not ready to accept a significant performance penalty?

Chances are most tool sets turned out not to be particularly robust and natural, that they incurred dramatic penalties when used in straightforward manners, and that their complex idiosyncracies had a strong tendency to distract from the real job and use cases you wanted to get done in a timely manner.

Nux helps to avoid XML nightmares, enabling you to mix and match powerful main-memory XML tools that fit your needs, in natural, straightforward, seamless, effective and standards compliant manners.

Nux reliably processes whatever data fits into main memory (even, say, 250 MB messages), but it is not an XML database system, and does not attempt to be one.

Nux integrates best-of-breed components, containing extensions of the XOM, Saxon and Lucene open-source libraries.

What's New in This Release:
This release adds production quality StAX integration, library dependency upgrades, bugfixes, performance improvements, a large set of integration tests, and other enhancements.