Recent News
07/03/2015: v2.6.0 released, improving Extensible Layer support.
01/01/2015: v2.5.0 released, adding multithreaded support.
11/20/2014: v2.4.0 released.
05/30/2014: v2.3.0 released.
05/13/2014: v2.2.1 released.
12/15/2013: v2.2.0 released, adding support for DDMS 5.0.
04/10/2013: Statistics about the DDMSence codebase can now be viewed at OpenHUB.
04/01/2013: Happy Birthday to DDMSence, celebrating 24 releases in 3 years!
01/19/2013: v2.1.0 released, adding support for DDMS 4.1.
12/01/2011: v2.0.0 released, adding support for DDMS 4.0.1.
10/20/2011: I gave a briefing on DDMSence at the DoD Metadata Working Group Meeting in Columbia, MD.
07/17/2011: v1.11.0 released, adding support for XSLT2-based Schematron validation.
07/05/2011: v1.10.0 released, adding support for DDMS 3.1.
06/06/2011: Schematron Implementation for DDMS published.
06/02/2011: v1.9.1 released. Example code for DDMS Validator and DDMS Builder posted.
05/24/2011: v1.9.0 released.
05/13/2011: v1.8.0 released, introducing the Component Builder framework.
03/10/2011: v1.7.2 released.
11/26/2010: Relational Database Model for DDMS published.
11/16/2010: v1.7.1 released.
09/18/2010: v1.7.0 released.
09/07/2010: v1.6.0 released.
09/01/2010: DDMS validator released.
07/07/2010: v1.5.1 released.
07/05/2010: v1.5.0 released.
06/08/2010: v1.4.0 released.
05/14/2010: v1.3.2 released.
05/11/2010: Added table of supported XSLT Engines to Schematron Validation Power Tip.
05/09/2010: v1.3.1 released.
05/07/2010: v1.3.0 released.
04/24/2010: v1.2.1 released.
04/21/2010: v1.2.0 released.
04/08/2010: v1.1.0 released.
04/01/2010: v1.0.0 released.
03/29/2010: v0.9.d released.
03/25/2010: v0.9.c released.
03/24/2010: v0.9.b released.

DDMSence v2.6.0

DDMSence (pronounced "dee-dee-em-Essence") is the only open-source Java library that fully supports the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS). It converts DDMS Resources (also called assertions or metacards) into a Java object model, allowing them to be manipulated or traversed within the context of a Java environment.

DDMSence comes with a complete set of JUnit tests, and is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

About the Author

Brian Uri! works at Accenture Federal Services. He has nearly 20 years of experience in software engineering, proposal writing, and government data standards, with an emphasis on the DoD's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) efforts.

DDMSence was conceived in January 2010 and grew out of Brian's desire to gain more practical XML Schema experience, to write something useful which had never been done before, and an unusually large amount of free time. Brian is also the creator of Sparkour.