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Publications on Castor - Articles and presentations
Articles
Books/Chapters
Presentations
User Community Tutorials
Humor
Articles
Castor in the press...
IBM developerWorks (2007/2008)
Brett McLaughlin has published an article series on
(XML) data binding with Castor
at IBM's developerWorks.
- Part 1: Install and set up Castor - Part 2: Marshall and unmarshall XML - Part 3: Map between schemas - Part 4: Bind your Java objects to SQL databases
IBM developerWorks (October 2003)
Elias Torres, Brian D Goodman and Kevin Gibbs explain in their article how to integrate Castor
with Apache Axis to process Document Style Web Services.
Read
Castor Cures Your Data Binding Ills (developer.com, March 2003)
Thomas Hammell discusses both Castor XML and Castor J/DO as he walks
the reader through a real world XML and RDB data binding example.
Read
IBM developerWorks (January 2003)
Dennis Sonoski concludes its data-binding serie on developerWorks by taking a look
at the performance of the different data-binding frameworks.
Read
IBM developerWorks (January 2003)
Dennis Sonoski continues his series on the data binding approach by giving a global overview
of 5 data binding frameworks including Castor and JAXB.
Read
O/R Mapping with Castor JDO in the Real World (December 2002)
David Colwell discusses the pros and cons of his experience with Castor JDO as well
as some feeback about how he worked around some of its limitations.
Read
O'Reilly ONJava (October 2002)
Jeff Lowery provides an introduction to the Castor JDO framework.
Read
IBM developerWorks (August 2002)
Castor JDO lead Bruce Snyder gives an overview of Castor JDO and introduces the reader to
the basics of working with the JDO framework.
Read
O'Reilly XML.com (July 2002)
Niel Bornstein drafts a introduction to the .Net Data-Binding framework and to Castor.
This introduction compares both approaches.
Read
IBM developerWorks (April 2002)
Enterprise Java expert Dennis Sosnoski introduces data binding and discusses what makes it so appealing.
He illustrates the article using Castor.
Read
Javaworld (April 2002)
Jacek Kruszelnicki discusses the pros and cons of Sun JDO and Castor JDO.
Read
Javaworld (December 2001)
Sam Brodkin shed light on the Data-binding world using JAXB and Castor XML.
Read
O'Reilly Onjava.com (October 2001)
Dion Almaer gives a good introduction to Castor XML.
Read
Books/Chapters
Castor in the literature...
XML Application Developer's Guide by BORLAND (2001)
Borland is using Castor among the XML features present in JBuilder 6. This book contains a
chapter on data-binding using Castor inside JBuilder 6.
Download
Professional XML (2nd Edition) Chapter 15 (June 2001)
A chapter written by Keith Visco about Castor XML. Available for
Download at Wrox:
Download
Presentations
Castor in conferences...
Atlanta Java Software Symposium (November 2002) - New
Eitan Suez, of UptoData, Inc. - A great Castor evangelist in his own right, gave the following excellent
presentation on Castor XML and JDO at the Atlanta Java Software Symposium, among other notable
conferences.
Download - presentation
- XML/JDO Mapping Examples
- Source Generator Examples
XML One Amsterdam (September 2001)
Andrew Fawcett, of CODA - our main evangelist, gave a presentation on implementing XML data binding
solutions using web-services with Castor at the XML One conference in Amsterdam, September 2001.
Download
XML One London (March 2001)
Andrew Fawcett, of CODA, gave a presentation on XML data binding
with Castor at the XML One conference in London, March 2001.
Download
O'Reilly Java Conference (March 2000)
The first public presentation on Castor was done at the O'Reilly Java Conference
in March 2000. It's a little dated, but still serves as a decent overview
of what Castor is all about.
View the presentation.
User Community Tutorials
castorcodeexample
A minitutorial for using Castor JDO with MySQL.
Read
CASTOR Tutorial
A small Castor XML tutorial.
Read
Tutorial: Schema databinding with Castor
A tutorial explaining how to use JBuilder's XML databinding features using XML schema and
Castor XML to generate Java classes.
Read
Humor
The Town Of Castor
The Town Of Castor resides in East Central Alberta, Canada.
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