The Milyn Project is building Open-Source Java components for XML analysis and processing.
Smooks
Smooks is a Java framework for performing XML analysis and transformation.
Smooks can be used as a Java alternative to XSLT for XML transformation.
Sub Components
A component for performing browser recognition and browser profiling in a J2EE Servlet Container. |
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A component for parsing Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) data into a Document Object Model (DOM). |

JBoss® have selected Smooks to be one of the "out-of-the-box" transformation solutions for their new JBossESB product. JBossESB is currently under development at JBoss Labs.
News
Thursday 1st June 2006
Posted Smooks Templating Cartridge. Extends the power of the Smooks JavaBean Cartridge by allowing bean populated StringTemplate based XML transformations. See Tutorial.
Thursday 11st February 2006
Posted initial findings of integrating the Smooks Servlet Filter into the Chiba XForms Engine, replacing the Chiba XSLT transformation with a Smooks transformation. Response-time benchmarkings show Smooks to be up to x15 faster than XSLT for this type of transformation. See Chiba Integration for more details.
Wednesday 21st December 2005
Posted a prototype version of the Smooks Report Generator. Speed up creation/testing of websites that work across a range of browser types an versions!