# Castor Extra Features and 3rd Party Tools

## 3rd Party Tools

This section contains pointers to 3rd party tools.

       
*Note*: We do not provide support for these tools, please visit their respective 
websites for support, questions, or concerns.
       

### Apple WebObjects

| Description | Company | Link |
| -- | -- | -- |
| WebObjects is Apple's suite of tools and object-oriented
frameworks for creating and deploying scalable, reusable
web and Java applications for the Internet and intranets.
WebObjects supports the development, deployment, and
extension of standards-based web services without the need
to write low-level SOAP, XML or WSDL code. Tools enable
code-free generation, configuration, and testing of
applications from existing data assets. | Apple |http://developer.apple.com/documentation/WebObjects/Enterprise_JavaBeans/ContainerConfiguration/chapter_6_section_4.html | 

       
### Phantom-Castor
       
| Description | Company | Link |
| -- | -- | -- |
| Phantom-Castor contains components to ease the construction
of JDO applications using Castor. It provides easier use of
mappings with building OQL queries. | Alexey Efimov | http://sf.net/projects/phantom-castor |

### Castor-Eclipse-Plugin
 
| Description | Company | Link |
| -- | -- | -- |
| An Eclipse plugin for Castor's source code generator. | Peter Nehrer | http://xdoclipse.sourceforge.net/cep.html |

### Castor-Taglib

| Description | Company | Link |
| -- | -- | -- |
| The Castor Taglib allows you to execute OQL queries in
your JSP page (using Castor JDO). It also helps you to
integrate Castor JDO with Java application servers like
Tomcat, making use of JNDI and Tyrex for managed transactions.

It is intended that support for more servlet containers
will be added.

The taglib is compatible with JSTL 1.0, and allows you
to use expression language (EL) to pass values dynamically
to the attributes of certain tags. | Patrick van Kaan | http://castor-taglib.sourceforge.net |
                        
### Castor Doclet

| Description | Company | Link |
| -- | -- | -- |
| Castor-Doclet is a tool for generating the Castor JDO mapping file from
                        javadoc tags added in the source code. It also has the ability to generate
                        a DDL file for different databases. | Mickael Guessant | http://castordoclet.sourceforge.net |

### Castor Oil
         
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                        Castor Oil is a GUI tool for generating the Castor mapping file from
                        from existing data base tables. To my knowledge Castor Oil was the
                        first GUI tool written for Castor. It was originally written by
                        Lance Lavandowska, but has recently found a new maintainer and
                        developer, Peter Kasson, who has been actively working to bring
                        Oil back up to compatibility with the latest version of Castor.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Current Author:</td>
                    <td>Peter Kasson</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://www.kasstek.com/opensource/app.jsp</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
         
### O2XMapper
         
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                        This tool is a GUI front end to Castor's MappingTool. It allows
                        automatic creation and customization of mapping files. This tool
                        is primarily for Castor XML, but check out
                        <a href="#JDOMapper">JDOMapper</a> from the same author.
                     </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Shelly Mujtaba</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td> <url>http://o2xmapper.sourceforge.net</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
         
### JDOMapper
         
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                       JDOMapper provides a user interface for creating Castor JDO mapping files.
                       The application allows user to import Java classes and map them to an relational
                       schema . The tool performs series of validations to ensure that classes and fields
                       are correctly mapped. Existing mapping files can also be imported into the tool.
                       <br/>
                       JDOMapper will pre-fill most of the options for a class or field. Finally,
                       the User interface provides a more manageable view of the Mapping configuration,
                       especially as the number of mapped classes grows large.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Shelly Mujtaba</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td> <url>http://o2xmapper.sourceforge.net/jdomapper/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
         
### bibs-crea-mapeo
         
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                       A stored procedure for MSSQL that generates Castor JDO Mapping's
                       from the database information. 
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Víctor Manuel Iniestra Álvarez</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td> <url>http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibs-crea-mapeo/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
         
### Raccoon
         
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                       Another tool that allows one to automatically create a Castor mapping
                       file for a given set of Java Beans. This tool also provides a host of
                       other functionality which is geared towards integration with TIBCO
                       products.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Cedric Rouvrais</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td> <url>http://raccoonfwk.sourceforge.net/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### SchemaWizard
         
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                      SchemaWizard is a tool which automates building user interfaces to generate and modify XML instances following a XML schema.
                      SchemaWizard achieves this by mapping XML Schema types to HTML form elements with a series of Velocity templates, JSP pages and Javabeans.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Ozgur Balsoy</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td> <url>http://ptlportal.communitygrids.iu.edu/schemawizard/index.html</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
         
### XDoclet
        
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                     XDoclet is a code generation engine. It enables 
                     Attribute-Oriented Programming for Java. It provides 
                     tags for Castor under the @exolab moniker.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>See the <a href="http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/1.2beta/team-list.html">Team List</a></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/1.2beta/index.html</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        
### Xtreme Space
            
                <table border="0">
                    <tr>
                        <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                        <td>
                          Xtreme Space is a JavaSpaces implementation using a RDBMS or a native XML
                          database as a backend. It is based on Castor for mapping between Java objects
                          and the tables.
                        </td>
                     </tr>
                     <tr>
                        <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                        <td>Jerome Bernard</td>
                     </tr>
                     <tr>
                        <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                        <td><url>http://www.kalixia.com/weblogs/space/XtremeSpace</url></td>
                     </tr>
                  </table>
               
### TogMap
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    TogMap is a module for the CASE Tool Together which generates 
                    XML-mapping-files for OR-Mappers. It takes an existing object 
                    model, which you can augment by OR-specific markers, and 
                    produces an XML-mapping file. Currently only for Castor-JDO.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Markus Blaurock</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td>http://sourceforge.net/projects/togmap/</td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### CastorWizard
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    JBuilder Wizard OpenTool which offers one facilitated way 
                    to generate java source code through O/R mapping, such as 
                    Exolab's Castor JDO, DAO etc. It may also generate other 
                    adjunction files according to your needs, such as Castor 
                    JDO mapping file.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Author:</td>
                    <td>Andy Laun</td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td>http://sourceforge.net/projects/castorwizard/</td>
                </tr>
            </table>
## Products that make use of Castor
    
### XFire
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
						XFire is a next-generation Java SOAP framework. XFire makes service oriented 
						development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. 
						It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://xfire.codehaus.org/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### OpenEJB
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    OpenEJB is an Open Source implementation of version 1.1 of 
                    the EJB specification, which supports both session and 
                    entity beans in addition to an enhanced security model.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://openejb.sf.net/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </section>

### Roller Weblogger
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    Roller is server-based weblogging software, a web application 
                    that is designed to support multiple simultaneous weblog 
                    users and visitors.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://www.rollerweblogger.com/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### InfoGlue
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    InfoGlue is a free, open and competent content management 
                    platform suitable for a wide range of applications and 
                    organisations.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://www.infoglue.org/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### Altoweb Xpi
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    With AltoWeb Xpi, anyone who understands fundamental 
                    application design and development concepts can quickly 
                    assemble enterprise-level Java applications, while J2EE 
                    experts maintain full access to the standard Java code and 
                    descriptors that are generated. NOTE: AltoWeb is now out
                    of business. 
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://www.altoweb.com/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>

### Borland JBuilder
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    This step-by-step tutorial explains how to use JBuilder's 
                    XML databinding features using schema and Castor to generate 
                    Java classes.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://info.borland.com/techpubs/jbuilder/jbuilder6/xml/xml_data_castor.html</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### jwma
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                     With the delivered basic view, which is based on standard 
                     HTML 4.0 and does not require any Java functionality on the 
                     client side, jwma is primarily a webmail package, enabling 
                     the user to access, manage and compose email using a standard 
                     web browser. However, due to it's flexible architecture, 
                     that allows to replace elements with other implementations 
                     (like for example a WAP view), jwma can be seen as multi-session 
                     server side email client software based on Java technologies.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://jwma.sourceforge.net/overview.html</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
### JAXBBuilder
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    JAXBBuilder is an eclipse plugin for generating Java classes 
                    directly from XML schema, the generated classes can then 
                    marshall to/from XML via Castor API. The plug-in includes a 
                    JAXB project wizard, JAXB builder and property pages for 
                    JAXB configuration.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaxb-builder/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            
### JAFFA

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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    An Enterprise Focused Java Framework For Rapid Application 
                    Development. JAFFA build up existing projects like Tomcat, 
                    Struts, Castor, Ant etc and glues them all together for a 
                    complete web based componentized development environment.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://jaffa.sourceforge.net/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            
### JOrganizer
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    JOrganizer is a webbased PIM (Personal Information Manager), 
                    written in Java. With it, you can manage your contacts, 
                    emails, time and more. It is based on JSP, Servlets, Struts, 
                    Castor, the xml.apache.org API's and other Open Source projects.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://jorganizer.sourceforge.net/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>

### Java Web Application Framework (JWAF)
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                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    Java Web Application Framework (JWAF) is a framework 
                    designed to extend existing per-tier frameworks such as 
                    Struts and Castor, to provide a complete 5-tier framework 
                    and toolset that can be used to rapidly build business 
                    process application and more.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://jwaf.sourceforge.net/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>

### BlueGlue
            <table border="0">
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">Description:</td>
                    <td>
                    BlueGlue is an intelligent distribution of over 
                    100 (and counting) Open Source projects for Java and LAMP 
                    developers. It provides instant infrastructure with all the 
                    things developers need to be productive: web server, web app 
                    container, application server, database, database browser, 
                    source code control system, source code browser, bug tracker, 
                    discussion forum, mail server, web logger, template engine, 
                    full text search engine, wiki site, charting package, and 
                    many more utilities.
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td valign="top">URL:</td>
                    <td><url>http://www.openlogic.com/</url></td>
                </tr>
            </table>
            
            