for FREE

jOOX, or Java Object Oriented XML, is a wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, designed to provide users with a solution for fluent XML document creation and management, requiring DOM but not with a high level of verbosity. jOOX is a wrapper only around the underlying document, and it can be used as an enhancement for DOM, not as a full alternative.

The library’s fluency is inspired by jRTF, which is a fluent API that can be used to create RTF documents in Java. The actual API is inspired by jQuery, a JavaScript library for DOM manipulation of HTML and XML. Finally, the name is inspired by jOOQ, a fluent API for SQL building and execution.

jOOX is dependent on java.sql, java.xml and java.xml.bind. You can find instructions for using the library with different versions of Java on the project’s GitHub page, along with examples that can help you get things started on the right track.

There are multiple navigation methods that can be used, which are also listed in the documentation, and they will all return a new wrapper which contains references to the resulting DOM elements.

Several manipulation modes are available for adding and removing books, and they are all executed on the underlying DOM document.