XPontus XML Editor 1.0.0 RC1 review

XPontus is a free java based XML editor designed towards text editing.

License: GPL OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: Yves Zoundi Price: $0.00 Updated: 20 Jul 2006

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XPontus is a free java based XML editor designed towards text editing. XPontus XML Editor 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.

What's New:
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.

Requirements:
Java 1.5.