Welcome to Mapper!
Mapper is a set of components and wizards to help people develop web applications using the Enhydra framework. Mapper applications are put together much like traditional graphical user interfaces: containers, components and event driven programming. Below are the top features:

• Foundation set of XMLComponents (see overview).
• Wizards and Visual Designers for the Borland JBuilder IDE.
• XMLComponents can be bound to XML document, ComponentDataSource and http input stream.
• XMLComponents generate events and can have listeners much like GUI components.
• The WebComponentPO container is configured by properties and is an extensible environment for XMLComponents.
• ComponentDataSources for JDBC, Java object(s), and Borland's QueryDataSet to supply data to XMLComponents.

Check out the Mapper Roadmap today!

Beta-Release 0.9.2.5 Available Now!
The Beta-release version 0.9.2.5 includes a number of new and updated features.

• WebComponentPO wizard updated: The Advanced page now provides full control of behavior - from fully automated to fully programmer controlled.
• New Designer for WebComponentPO (and any XMLComponentContainer): Provides easy way to add(persist) XMLComponents from the XMLDocument.
• ObjectArrayDataSource and ObjectDataSource are tested and compatible for use with J2EE.
• XMLTemplate updated: Now fully supports grouping and nesting
• New GroupControl: Connected to DataSources to provide group breaks
• New SummaryColumn: Add to DataSources for sums, averages, counts, etc.
• New GenericComponentContainer: Use Mapper components in non-web applicaitons
• New JdbcDataSource wizard to create JDBC DataSources.
• New ObjectDataSource wizard (basic version) to create ObjectDataSources
• New ObjectArrayDataSource wizard (basic version) to create ObjectArrayDataSources
• New HTMLCheckBoxComponent: New XML component for HTML documents
• HTMLComponentFactory: Now supports auto-creation of more component types
• Many more features added...(see release notes for details)

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New Calculator Example: Available Now!
A new example project has been added for Mapper. It includes full tutorial on creating an application using a Java object as a data source. It also demonstrates how to override the default behavior of the WebComponentPO.

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Beta-Release 0.9.2.4 Available Now!
Beta-release version 0.9.2.4 is available which includes some bug fixes and minor changes. The overall architecture has been finalized, although a few new features will be added before the final release.

Updated Library Example: Available Now!
The Library example project has been updated for the new version of Mapper. It includes full tutorial on creating a database application using a JDBC data source and a Borland DataExpress data source.

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New Examples: Available Now!
New examples have been posted for Mapper. The newest set of examples demonstrate the use of the ObjectArrayDataSource which allows you to use any Java object as a data source.

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Beta-Release 0.9.2.3 Available Now!
Beta-release version 0.9.2.3 is available which includes new Object data sources and Visual designers for JBuilder. The overall architecture has been finalized, although a few new features will be added before the final release.

The General documentation and tutorials are still under construction and will be completed soon. Get the release now!