Announce: XPontus XML Editor 1.0.0RC1

XPontus(http://xpontus.sf.net) is a free java based XML editor designed towards text editing. It aims to provide a free alternative to commercial XML Editors.

   As XPontus is written in Java it is available for all java enabled operating systems. It has been reported to run correctly on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris and FreeBSD. There are many installers for platform convenience.

The software is distributed under the GNU GPL License.

This is the first release candidate of XPontus XML Editor 1.0.0. There are now linux packages and a real windows installer.

Thanks to lots of comments, I tried to improve the user experience in that release.

Changes:
Changes to Project Administration
* Moved the revision control system from CVS to SVN

Changes to the Code Base
* Spring is used as container and for IOC.
* Changed from simple object serialization to XStream to save user settings.
* Moved from observer pattern to JGoodies bindings for UI mappings
* Allowed the user to customize more settings(font, tab size, jtidy settings,etc.).
* Add a tree view to browse the XML code structure
* Added support for XMLDiff
* The API has been cleaned to reuse code

Changes to Design
* No more annoying popup windows when you don't need them

Changes to the user interface
* Changed Splitpane windows to VlDocking framework components

http://xpontus.sourceforge.net
Yves Zoundi(YZ)


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