As well as 85+ bug fixes, Smooks v1.4 includes the following new highlight features:

• EDI:
  • Out of the box support for UN/EDIFACT Interchange messages. (By: Bård Langoy, Renat Zubairov, Tom)
  • Allow the EDIParser (by explicit configuration) to ignore unmapped fields. (By: Christian Bach)
  • Added EDI Ojbect Serialization to EJC generated POJOs. (By: Tom)
  • Support for UN/EDIFACT UNA Decimal Point specification. (By: Nicolas Blanc)
• A Dynamic Model Builder that allows you to process evolving configuration namespaces. Supports model reading and writing. (By: Tom)
• Support for reading YAML messages. (By: Maurice Zeijen)
• Create an OSGi compatible “smooks-all” module that assembles all smooks jars into a single jar. (By: Daniel Bevenius, Tom)
• Apache Camel Integration. (By: Daniel Bevenius)
• NumberFormat support for Numeric DataDecoders. (By: Tom)
• Support for bean wiring by bean type and bean annotation. (By: Tom)
• Simple event stream manipulation actions for renaming/removing elements/attributes. (By: Tom)
• Restructured and easier to use User Guide. (By: Maurice Zeijen)
• Restructured and easier to use Examples page. (By: Tom)
• … See full list of Fixes and Features

• Out of the box support for UN/EDIFACT Interchange message.  See Examples.
• Apache Camel Integration.  See Examples.
• A Dynamic Model Builder that’s very handy for dealing with complex evolving configuration namespaces on top of a single Java Object Model. Supports model reading and writing.  See Examples.

But that’s not all by any means.  See here for a full list of Fixes and Features

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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

1. EDIFACT Java Compiler (EJC):  EJC greatly simplifies the process of binding EDI data to a Java object graph.  EJC is similar to JAXBs XJC, accept for EDI messages.  This is just the first of a number of developer optimization features we are in the process of adding in the area of EDI message processing.
2. Entity Persistence Framework Support:  Reuse your Entity Persistence resources (like Hibernate, iBATIS or any JPA compatible resource) to persist or enrich messages of any format (EDI, XML etc).  Access a database and use it’s query language, or CRUD methods, for reading and writing to the database.
3. Validation:  Perform Rule based message fragment validation on messages of any format (EDI, XML etc).  Supports Data Field level validation using regular expressions, or Business Rule compliance validation using MVEL expressions.
4. Simplified CSV Processing:  Bind CSV records to Java objects in seconds using a much simplified XML configuration, or using a very simple programmatic API.
5. Improved Programmatic APIs:  Prior to Smooks v1.2, programmatic configuration was not one of Smooks’ strengths.   In Smooks v1.2 we’ve made significant improvements in this area.  Most Smooks features can now be utilised through Java, without writing a line of XML.

As well as these new features, Smooks v1.2 includes numerous bug fixes.  Please download Smooks v1.2 and let us know what you think.  We hope you find it useful!!