CAM XML Editor version 2.2.1 now available for NIEM IEPDs

CAM Editor v2.2.1 release is now available. Lots of nice enhancements, CAMV performance boost and important bug fixes for DoD, NIEM and LEXS schema.

Download is available from the CAM XML Editor Resource Site.

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The CAM editor is the leading open source XML Editor/Validation/Schema designer for rapidly building and deploying complete XML information exchanges. Provides a visual WYSIWYG structure with rule entry wizards and drag and drop dictionary components.

Will import, analyze and refactor existing XML Schema.

Oracle is a proud sponsor of the project and its use on the NIEM.gov initiative.

Creates XSD schema + JAXB bindings, Mindmap or UML models (XMI), XML test suite examples, HTML documentation + spreadsheets (NIEM IEPDs). XSD schema export in default, flatten, NIEM, and OASIS modes. Generates canonical component dictionaries from schema sets, ERwin models, or spreadsheets.

NIEM / LEXS starter kit now available with JAX-WS and JDeveloper examples

The Oracle NIEM team is pleased to announce the availability of a starter kit to assist in rapidly developing NIEM solutions using Java. The kit uses the LEXS 3.1.4 Search/Retrieve schema as examples.

You can find out more and download the how to step by step guides along with sample source code from this link here.

JAXB, JDeveloper and Complex Schema

Need tools to help with creating JAXB bindings for complex XSD schema, (such as NIEM schema)?

Then check out the tools available from the CAM Editor resource site for JAXB bindings.

Also included are tools for creating XML samples and performing validation services.

LEXS.gov is now LEXSdev.org

Just a quick note for everyone searching for the LEXS developer website - its now lexsdev.org - please update your link references (formally lexs.gov).

CAM v2.2 release with multi-lingual support taking NIEM international

New release now available with French, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Chinese and Japanese support from http://www.cameditor.org

Complete highlights include the following:
o International localization language support for menus and screens
o JAXB binding and ConTessa support for XSD schema export
o Better XSD schema importing and exporting
o Dictionary collection manager wizard
o Better dictionary namespace handling
o Better UML physical model export to XMI 2.1.2 (now works with popular UML tools)
o CAMV validation engine support for W3C DOM and extended API options

Notice the Dictionary Collection Manager tool uses enhanced namespace techniques. Please download the latest NIEM dictionary pack from Sourceforge files to take advantage of these.

Extending NIEM and tools for NIEM

Two resources for NIEM development include the NIEM tools center on Sourceforge, and the NIEMdev project on Google sites. In addition for NIEM message exchanges using a neutral messaging framework there is the LEXS work (Logic Entity eXchange System) and the LEXS development site.

Each site is serving a different audience.  The NIEM tools project on Sourceforge focuses on using the OASIS CAM (Content Assembly Mechanism) approach for XML validation frameworks and message assembly.  These tools accelerate the development of NIEM exchanges and dictionary components sets to support discreet NIEM domains.

The NIEM development site on Google is focused on collaborative resources for general development of NIEM and specific example IEPDs. Initially this is focused on the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) V2 development.

The LEXS development site hosts the specifications for LEXS and public resources to aid with the development of LEXS based message exchanges.

We will continue to provide updates from time to time and significant news regarding availability of NIEM tools.

CAM editor v2.0 ships with enhanced NIEM support

The latest CAM editor toolkit v2.0 boasts an impressive feature set for NIEM developers including:

• Drag and drop assembly of exchange structures from sets of dictionary canonical components
• Support for modelling with UML/XMI and “FreeMind” MindMap tools
• Cross platform deployment - Windows, *NIX and MacOs in 32bit and 64bit executables
• New visual editor with color coding, 3x performance increase and 50% less memory use
• Enhanced and improved NIEM IEPD production features and NIEM dictionary collections
• Dictionary harvesting from schema with dictionary compiling for drag and drop tool use
• External codelist generation and support
• Support for branding, delivery packaging and NIEM features development from Oracle
• Standalone CAMV 1.1.4 validation engine and ANT batch scripts testing environment

Together these improvements allow people to fully integrate their exchange schema development from

dictionaries of components to exchange schema structures. Then align with modelling documentation

and designs, while automating the production of actual exchange schema and XML instance test suites needed for a full NIEM IEPD delivery.

The v2.0 release notes PDF are here.

You can find out more from the CAM editor download site.