[oXygen-sdk] [ann] oXygen XML Editor version 16

[Radu Coravu]

Hi everybody,

I am happy to announce that a new major release of oXygen XML Editor,
version 16 is available from our website:

http://www.oxygenxml.com

As an important change, starting with this version, we decided to offer 
our SDK as a public Maven repository. It is easier now to create a 
startup project by using the oxygen-sdk-samples-archetype, directly from 
your IDE of choice.

In this Maven project you will find sample modules for:

- Implementing XML framework extensions
- Sample plugins for the oXygen standalone distribution
- Usage of the Author Component as an applet
- Usage of the Author as a WebApp with HTML5 frontend

Please register and read on our website how to create a startup project 
from the command line or from the Eclipse IDE:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/oxygen_sdk_maven.html

So please give us your opinion on this change.

Our Maven repository also has early access to the "XML Author WebApp", a 
100% XHTML5+Javascript based solution for in-browser reviewing of XML 
content either on mobile or on desktop devices. The solution needs a 
special server-side component installed in a J2EE container server like 
Tomcat.

As usual we added a lot of Java-based API:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/whatisnew16.0.html#16.0_API

For example I consider quite useful the API 
"PluginWorkspace.importGlobalOptions(File)" which will allow you to 
force the application to load a set of options from an options XML document.
Our Plugins SDK contains a sample plugin which uses this new API.

We also added the possibility to extend a document type/framework 
configuration and have that extension automatically evolve as the base 
document type evolves from one Oxygen version to another.
For example you can extend the DITA document type and make changes to it 
but still benefit of the new improvements Oxygen adds in each new release.

You can find the complete version 16.0 release notes at:
http://oxygenxml.com/whatisnew16.0.html

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com