The CAM editor is the leading open source toolkit for building and deploying XML exchanges and Open Data APIs. The CAM toolkit provides an intuitive approach using a WYSIWYG visual structure editor to dramatically simplify the process of developing and managing XML business information exchanges and schema. This gives developers control, insights and analysis that are needed for consistent, interoperable and reliable exchanges.
The CAM toolkit also automates the tasks of generating supporting artifacts such as business documentation, cross-reference spreadsheets, models, XML Schema, JAXB data bindings and test XML instances.

The OASIS CAM is a public open standard. The CAM editor can import, analyze and refactor existing exchange XML Schema for better compatibility and use in middleware, including generating XML Schema. Schema generated can be in simple generic syntax or choose from model compliant styles consistent with enterprise integration patterns.
The full XML exchange structure, rules and documentation details are stored in the OASIS CAM standard XML template format. These OASIS CAM standard XML validation templates can include use of content models, code lists, direct SQL table lookups, SQL table data mappings, and business logic expressed as XPath rules with warnings and error flagging that together provide a comprehensive XML exchange handling framework.
The new Open-XDX open data capabilities use code-free techniques in combination with CAM templates and visual drag and drop to rapidly design your XML exchange with SQL DBMappings. From there Open-XDX will automatically generate all the SQL for you, read the database data, generate and populate the valid XML output, and filter with parameters. You can build either Query/Response or Publish/Subscribe services from existing SQL data stores to XML literally in minutes.
Compatible with the NIEM approach for information exchange integration with extensible profiles for NIEM, OASIS and more. Also supports Compliance and Interoperability Testing environment development (CITE) with use of Test Suites and the CAMV validation engine.
The CAM toolkit supports the use of Canonical Model dictionary components with visual Drag and Drop designing. Also provides a set of tools for harvesting and generating canonical dictionaries from existing XML Schema libraries, SQL data stores or enterprise data modelling tools. The CAM approach enables core component message assembly from canonical dictionary collections.
The standalone CAMV validation engine, written in Java, implements an XML validation framework using the OASIS CAM specification as the foundation. Also designed for integration with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the CAMV XML validation framework supports use with other message based integration patterns such as Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), LEXS (Logical Entity Exchange System) and ebXML messaging systems.

Features

The current release of the CAM toolkit provides the following functionality:
Visual drag and drop authoring of XML exchange structures from dictionary collections of components
Import of data models as XSD schema, and WSDL to create or enhance XML exchanges
SQL data store mapping of tables and columns to XML structure components
Open Data designer drag and drop from SQL data store tables to create new XML structures
Generation of model compliant XML Schema using profiles, e.g. NIEM, OASIS, WSDL
Evaluation Reporting of schema design quality assessment
Canonical model dictionary management and generation
Industry Standard XML Frameworks support
Exchange Modelling with UML/XMI
Run time validation engine the CAMV Java module
Code list and SQL table lookup validation tools and run time CAMV
Business logic rule validation using template XPath expressions
Example XML instance generation with content hinting
XML Test Suites using Ant scripting of CAMV
Compliance Test Language using XPath expressions and CAMV