XML News from Thursday, August 31, 2006

freebxml.org has released ebxmlrr 3.0, an open source ebXML Registry. An XML registry/repository "can store XML, web services, or any other type of data, and the registry manages the entire life cycle of information in the repository using sophisticated meta-data technology." According to the announcement, version 3.0 "provides a near, feature complete implementation of Registry Full conformance profile for the OASIS ebXML Registry 3.0 standard [ebRR]. The only missing feature is support for Single Sign On (SSO) based on the Registry SAML Profile. This implementation therefor currently only claims conformance to the Registry Lite profile for the OASIS ebXML Registry 3.0 standard. The freebXML Registry also provides a feature complete implementation of level 1 conformance profile of the Java API for XML Registries API [JAXR]. Also included are implementation of two profiles [PROF] of ebXML Registry", the ebXML Registry Profile for Web Services and the ebXML Registry Profile for WSRP Remote Portlets.


The CRDP the Académie de Grenoble has released WéM, a €35 payware XHTML+MathML editor aimed at the creation of scientific and interactive documents. WéM (and its web site) are in French.