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Version 1.0.4 released on 15. July 2002; minor improvements. The most significant is that people who did not install Xalan properly under JDK 1.4.0 get a more specific error message. It uses the most recent version of the BouncyCastle JCE now.

Version 1.0.3 now supports new W3C specs:

Canonicalization is written completely new: it's about 5-80 times faster than the implementation in version 1.0.2. It's highly recommended to upgrade to the new version.


JDK 1.4 issues
 

If you use JDK 1.4 and want to use this software, be sure that Xalan is properly installed. Check the bottom of the installation guide!!!

I have so many complaints from people who argue that the software throws exceptions during running the examples or during unit testing. This package NEEDS a Xalan version after 2.2D13 (and SUN shipped his JDK 1.4.0 final with a Xalan beta!). I started integrating the installation guide into the exception messages cause it seems that people don't have a look at the installation guide.


XML Security Release
 

The Apache-XML-Security-J 1.0.5D2 supports the XML-Signature Syntax and Processing recommendation.

Note that there is no standard API avaliable at the moment. SUN is working on a JAVA Specification Request JSR-105: XML Digital Signature APIs on an API for XML Signature and JSR-106: XML Digital Encryption APIs, but until now, nothing has been published. So, this software does not conform to any of these specifications.


License Information
 

The XML Security package is available in both source code and precompiled binary (JAR files) form. Both packages are made available under the Apache Software License.


Download
 

You can download the source and binary packages in the dist directory.


Sample programs
 

This software can be used to create and verify arbitrary forms of XML Signatures. The documentation available here is not very huge; my first approach is to supply usage examples which are available in the src_samples/ directory to give interested users a first starting point to jump-start with XML Signature. NOTE: The samples divide into two groups: Samples that create and samples that verify Signatures. Eventually, you should adjust the verifying program to another filename if you get FileNotFoundExceptions.


Mailing lists
 

There exists a mailing list which you can subscribe to ask questions:

The ezmlm mailing list controller accepts commands by sending emails to it, generally like the following:

An archive of this list is kept under http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.text.xml.security.devel


Contact information
 

For comments about the software please send them to the author geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de



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