Happy New Year. This is normally the point where I make a lot of promises about cool new features for this site that don't come to pass. However, for 2004 my plans are focused in on other areas. My goals for this year are three third editions, at least one peer-reviewed paper, and 1.0 releases of XOM and XQuisitor.
The XML Apache Project has posted the third beta of XIndice 1.1, an open source native XML database published under the Apache Software License. Xindice supports XPath for queries and XML:DB XUpdate for XML updates and the XML:DB XML database API for Java as well as an XML-RPC interface. Chnages since 1.0 are mostly minor and include bug fixes and Java 1.4 support.