JSR225 - XQuery API for Java

["Antoine Mensch" <antoine.mensch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM and Oracle just released an early draft of JSR 225: XQJ (XQuery API for
Java - http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=225).
XQJ is to XQuery what JDBC is to SQL. Even though XQuery is still a W3C
draft, the release of this early draft shows that major vendors in the Java
and J2EE world consider XML and XQuery as critical technologies. Note that
XQuery is not limited to querying native XML databases, but can also be used
to query other types of datasources, such as relational databases, plain XML
documents or Web Services. You can have a look at the OW XQuark project
(http://xquark.objectweb.org) to have an example of what can be achieved
with XQuery. XQuark intends to support XQJ when it will be officially
released. A similar API, called XML/DBC, is already available in XQuark.

Cheers,

Antoine Mensch