Date: Apr. 16, 2001
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Source Author or Organization: Andy Krumel

Jato is an XML-based language that describes an XML to Java mapping that can convert XML to Java objects and back. (Jato can be used to perform transformations in either direction.)

The language was designed to be deployed in place of Java XML APIs such as Simple Application Programming Interface for XML (SAX) or the Document Object Model (DOM) and to relieve developers of many time-consuming parsing chores.

Jato is based on JDOM and supports complex constructors and methods, JavaBeans naming conventions, conditional transformations, namespaces, can automate tasks with macros and is extensible via user-defined custom Jato tags.

Jato is distributed under a GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).