We were slow about doing it, but eventually… Smooks v1.3 (final) has hit the shelves!!

Download and try it out.

Thanks to everyone that contributed to this release.  As well as 65+ bug fixes, we’ve added a number of new features and improvements:

  1. Greatly improved XPath support in selectors. This allows you to write more complex selectors with XPath syntax. See here. See JIRA.
  2. Support for Fixed Length Field (FLF) messages. See JIRA.
  3. Java Binding Improvements:
    • Ability to bind raw data values into the bean context. See JIRA.
    • Support for factory methods for bean creation. See JIRA.
    • Make bind data available to Expression Base Bindings. See JIRA.
  4. String manipulation functions for tweaking CSV and FLF fields before forwarding to Smooks components. See JIRA.
  5. Support premature Filter termination. See JIRA.
  6. Simple fragment splitter. See JIRA.
  7. CSV Header Validation. See JIRA.

See here for a full list of Fixes and Features