Have the RefleX !

Overview

RefleX is a Java engine that can run Active Sheets, that is to say XML scripts where XML tags stand for instructions to process or for litterals, and where XPath expressions are intensively used for handling various objects. Active Sheets can be imperative, purely declarative, but they can also mix both styles !

RefleX is a powerful tool that integrates XML technologies with other non-XML technologies, according to the Active Tags specifications. RefleX also implements many optional Active Tags modules.

RefleX provides a command line interface, a servlet, but can also be embedded as is in a host application.

If you already know XML, XPath and XSLT technologies, you're ready to start !

With RefleX, you will be able to :

• submit XQuery queries to native XML databases
• build efficient XML pipelines
• filter SAX streams with XPath patterns
• publish with XSLT in batch mode or dynamically within a Web application
• rasterize SVG images to GIF, JPEG, PNG, etc
• serialize XSLFO or HTML+CSS to PDF
• browse various file systems with XPath
• map arbitrary complex SQL queries to XML
• make MVC applications made 100% with tags
• query and aggregate various data sources such as XML databases or LDAP repositories
• design dynamic content models in your XML schemata
• create semantic XML data types
• plug to the engine your own tag libraries
• define macro-tags in your custom libraries
• implement declarative-oriented markup languages
• unmarshal tags to dynamic pluggable components
• mix declarative-oriented languages with imperative instructions
• manage efficiently your resources with XML catalogs
• test your applications with the XUnit framework
• check the kinematics of your Web applications with the WUnit framework
• etc

You will be surprised that coding with active tags is much more shorter than with your favorite programming language, despite the intrinsic verbosity of XML !