Flatworm 1.2

Flatworm project is a Java library intended to allow a developer to describe the format of a flat file using an XML definition file, and then to be able to automatically read lines from that file, and have one or more beans be instantiated for each logical record.

There are a few powerful features in Flatworm worth mentioning. For one thing, a record may consist of one or more physical lines in the file. A record may contain more than one bean once decoded. A flat file may contain more than one type of record, and Flatworm can use line length and substring matching to determine which type of record a line begins.

Besides fielded buffer flat files, Flatworm also supports text files where the different fields are separated by a separator character, e.g. CSV (comma separated values) files.

Last but not least, Flatworm is able to produce flat files from beans and the same definition file.