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## Castor - A marketplace

Introduction
Use of Castor in other open source projects
Professional services

## Introduction

As already explained, Castor is an open-source product. This means that the source code is available at no charge and may be obtained using SVN or downloaded via <url>http://dist.codehaus.org/castor</url>.

Due to the nature of the project, there is no guaranteed level of support (of commercial quality) offered by the project and its community. As outlined here, the online documentation is the best place to start.

Having said that, it is noteworthy to mention that there's plenty of companies out there that offer ...

- | (commercial) products based on Castor
- | consulting services related to various aspects of Castor
- | commercial support related to Castor

This page provides you with various reference points, addressing most of the above areas.

We hope that the information provided is of value to you, our customers, and we are more than happy to discuss any suggestions/recommendations related to this offering.

## Use of Castor in other open source projects

This section identifies various (mainly) open source projects where Castor is used and/or that offer tight integration with Castor or parts thereof.

### Apache Cocoon

Apache Cocoon is a web publishing framework built around the concepts of separation of concerns and component-based web development.

As part of this framework, Cocoon provides a component, the CastorTransformer, that marshalls an object hierarchy (for which a mapping file or a class descriptor hierarchy exists) to XML and inserts it as a stream of SAX events into a Cocoon pipeline.

Further information on the integration of Apache Cocoon and Castor can be found here.

## Professional services

Please find information about professional services related to Castor, as well as a registry of individuals/companies and their offerings in this area here.

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