Tom Bradford has released dbXML 2.0, an open source native XML database written in Java and published under the GNU General Public License. New features in version 2.0 include:
Changes since the last release canddiate are only bug fixes. Java 1.4 is required.
Jason Hunter has posted the first release candidate of JDOM 1.0, an open source API for processing XML with Java. Changes since beta 10 consist of bug fixes and documentation updates. The API is unchanged. Java 1.2 or later is required.