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	CONNEXION
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Data exchange between resource constrained devices is often realized 
using efficient hand-crafted binary encodings of the transmitted data. 
On the other hand, information exchange in distributed systems on the 
Internet is increasingly done using the widespread text-based XML
format. XML files are simple text files; using them as a means to 
exchanging data is therefore relatively inefficient in terms of data size 
and not suitable for devices with limited resources. Currently the W3C is 
finalizing the EXI standard (http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/) which promises 
efficient encoding and compression of XML files. 

Connexion is a BSD-licensed implementation of the W3C EXI standard in the Java 
programming language. The version implemented by Connexion is currently the 
Working Draft 26.03.2008 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-exi-20080326/). 
Please note that this is not compatible with the latest draft/specification. 
Contributions are welcome.

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CONTACT
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Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, at the GitHub project page
(https://github.com/pfisterer/exi-connexion) or by contacting 
Dennis Pfisterer (exi-connexion__A_T__farberg__de).

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INSTALLATION / BUILDING
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No installation is required. To build it, you need Java 6 and 
Maven (http://maven.apache.org/). 

To build, run "mvn install", this will build it and place the 
generated jar file in target/ and in your local Maven repository.  

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USAGE
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	java -jar core/target/exi-connexion-1.0.one-jar.jar --help

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LICENSE
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Connexion is licenced under a BSD license. For details, see 
src/etc/license-header.txt. If you use it for scientific publications, 
we appreciate if you cite connexion with the following information:

	@techreport{exi-connexion,
	  author = {Marco Wegner and Dennis Pfisterer},
	  title = {Connexion - An implementation of the {Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) W3C} Standard},
	  institution = {Institute of Telematics, University of Luebeck, Germany},
	  note = {\url{https://github.com/pfisterer/exi-connexion}},
	  year = {2008}
	}