What tools are available for use with xCBL?
This depends on what you need to do and also on which version of xCBL you are using. For recent versions, Commerce One provide a developers area where you can download DocSOAPXDK, which is a free and open-source toolkit designed for use in creating web services solutions, and particularly document based SOAP solutions, making it ideal for use with xCBL’s extensive library of business documents. Also, all versions of xCBL released since W3C XML Schema became a recomendation are available in this format, which has very strong and wide tools support from a wide variety of vendors. Previous versions of xCBL may not be so widely supported as they were written only in SOX, XDR (which were early schema languages, created by Commerce One and Microsoft respectively, before the official W3C Schema language was available) or DTD which was the original (and very limited when compared with schema) method used to describe the structure of XML documents. For this reason we are still making available
