wbxml4j

wbxml4j is a Java class library for encoding and decoding WBXML. WBXML is WAP Binary XML.

• wbxml4j project page
• wbxml4j API (updated: December 9, 2001)
• wbxml4j mailing lists:
  • wbxml4j-announce - project announcements
  • wbxml4j-users - user discussion mailing list
  • wbxml4j-developers - project developers mailing list
• toolset

Presentations

• coming soon

WBXML resources

• WBXML - WAP Binary XML specification
• WBXML mailing list
• WAP Forum
• article about WBXML: part 1 and part 2
• kXML - supports WBXML
• Sybyx project @Sourceforge
• article: http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/ttips/compressxml/
• Web-based WBXML decoder
• article that discusses the merits of binary encoding
• article that discusses Binary XML
• yet another article that discusses Binary XML
• discussion of Binary XML on the XML-DEV mailing list
• XML-BIN mailing list
• article: "XML and Compression"
• xmill - from AT&T
• XMLTK - an XML toolkit that defines a binary format for XML
• BML: Binary Markup Language - a binary version of XML
• IBM Wapsody
• Nokia WAP SDK
• Ericsson WAP tools
• Openwave WAP SDK
• Alt WAP SDK and tools
• IBM Transcoding Publisher
• IBM research: transcoding
• wml-tools: http://pwot.co.uk/wml/
• Millau: http://www9.org/w9cdrom/154/154.html - a binary encoding format for XML documents. Millau is similar to WBXML.
• WAP mailing list on Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wap/
• JWap - a WAP gateway written in Java. Includes a WML compiler: http://simplex.hemmet.chalmers.se/Jwap/javadoc/COM/tietoenator/percom/WapGateway/wmlc/package-summary.html. The WML compiler produces WBXML encoded WML documents.

Related resources

• Java programmers can compress XML using ZipInputStream / ZipOutputStream or GZIPInputStream / GZIPOutputStream. These classes are in the java.util.zip package
• SyncML - the SyncML standard requires WBXML
• Open source WAP and SMS gateway: http://www.kannel.3glab.org
• openwap.org