| Introduction XMLSpear is a free XML editor with a great real-time validation feature. The XML is displayed in three different views: Mac OS users can open and edit their plist files, even when they are in binary format. XMLSpear is packaged with a MQSeries plugin for browing queues and putting messages, so you can even test your MQ based services. Please read the progress pages for more details. A sample plugin is now included in the download package !! Some of the features of XMLSpear that are already available: XMLSpear is still full in development. The editor is 100% pure Java and will run on Java Runtime 1.4.x upwards. Testing is done on the following platforms Mac OS 10.4.11 and Windows XP. Please let us know of your experiences running on other platforms. XMLSpear is available as java web start application or as standalone application. If you use the webstart version, you will always have the latest updates. But be patient the first time you launch XMLSpear and wait till the application is completely loaded. This will be the case if you see the XMLSpear logo appear in the centerpane. It may take several minutes depending on your connection. The next time you launch, will be much faster because only the modified files are downloaded. Please check the included readme.txt included in the stand alone package. You can extend the functionality by using plugins. Their are two types of plugins:
Some ideas for plugins:
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