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Oracle Contributes XQilla XQuery Engine Under Open Source Apache License

 I have recently posted an article to explain how Oracle is a major contributor to the Open-Source Community. A recent announcement give me the opportunity to detail this contribution here.

One week ago, Oracle has annouced his contribution to the XQilla XQuery engine code, an embeddable XQuery engine for developers building XML-based applications, under the open source Apache 2.0 license. For applications requiring XQuery and an XML document repository, Oracle has also integrated XQilla XQuery engine within Oracle Berkeley DB XML, an embeddable, open source XML database. By making XQilla XQuery engine available to developers under the Apache license, Oracle is furthering the adoption of XQuery and XML for application areas including Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Content Management.  The XQilla project is hosted on SourceForge, where an active community collaborates to further the technology.

The XQilla XQuery engine, an implementation of the XQuery 1.0 standard published by the W3C, enables developers to query XML data, similar to SQL for relational data. Developers can use the XQilla XQuery engine in commercial and open source applications at no cost, modify and improve it, as well as distribute it in binary and source code form. Non-Oracle information are available here.Oracle continues to invest significant resources in open source projects and technologies. Key Oracle contributions include:

• Linux
• Oracle Validated Configurations
• Eclipse
• PHP Development
• Open Source Tooling
• Open Source Database

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