Introducing a Java-Based Simple API for Binary REpresentations (SABRE)

This paper presents the simple API for binary representations (SABRE) in its initial version 1.0. SABRE defines observer-pattern interfaces for processing hierarchically structured, binary-oriented documents, comparable to the simple API for XML (SAX). By modularizing processing steps into separate stages of a streaming pipeline, SABRE facilitates parsing, transforming and serializing of large binary documents. Its applicability for multimedia documents is demonstrated through its use case, the generation of Apple QuickTime multimedia documents, and an example for a selected portion of such a document is given