Download oXygen XML Author

Download the fully functional oXygen XML Author and test it 30-day for free (requires a trial license key). This allows you to freely evaluate the software before making a purchase decision.

There's a single installation kit for all editions. Different license types activate different features. For a comparison between the Enterprise and Professional/Academic editions, please see the Feature Matrix.

If you are looking for an older version of oXygen XML Author, click here.

Windows Mac OS X Linux Other Eclipse

Windows 64-bit (Includes Java SE 8u102)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 182.9MB
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Windows 32-bit (Includes Java SE 8u102)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 179.4MB
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Note:

If you have difficulties installing the product please use the zip archive distribution instead. Just unzip it in a folder where you have write permissions and use the product launchers.

Instructions:

Install

Run the installation program and follow the instructions.

Run

To run the application start oxygenAuthor18.1.exe or oxygenAuthor.bat from the product installation directory.
Copy to clipboard the license key you have received by email and paste it in the license registration dialog box from the application.

Uninstall

Backup all valuable data from the oXygen installation folder.
Run the oXygen Uninstaller from the Start Menu or uninstall.exe from the installation folder.

Requirements Windows 32-bit:

Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium III class CPU with 1 GB of RAM and 400 MB of free disk space.
Recommended hardware configuration is dual core CPU with 4 GB of RAM.
The supported operating systems are Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and their corresponding server counterparts.

Notes Windows 64-bit:

You may encounter difficulties using some third-party database drivers/plugins with native libraries that do not support the 64-bit architecture. If you do, you should install and use the Windows 32-bit kit of oXygen.
The 64-bit edition of oXygen has a slightly larger memory footprint than the 32-bit edition due to the nature of the 64-bit architecture and JVM. Only use the 64-bit edition if you have plenty of RAM, work with very large files and need the ability to use the extra memory.

Requirements Windows 64-bit:

Minimum hardware configuration is Intel/AMD 64-bit CPU with 2GB of RAM (4GB or more recommended) and 400 MB free disk space.
The Windows 64-bit kit of oXygen can only be installed and ran on 64-bit Windows operating systems.
The supported operating systems are: Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit, and their corresponding server counterparts.

OS X 10.8 and later (Includes Java SE 8u102)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 222.8MB
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Instructions:

Install

After downloading, double click the oxygenAuthor.dmg disk image to mount it.
Drag/Copy the Oxygen XML Author folder to your /Applications folder (or another location if you wish).
Attention: Do not copy the files/folders from within the Oxygen XML Author folder (always copy the folder itself), otherwise you will omit invisible files/folders and the application may no longer start.
A new version (or maintenance build) of oXygen should not be copied to a directory where a previous version (or maintenance build) is already installed.

Run

To run the application double-click Oxygen XML Author in Finder or execute oxygenAuthorMac.sh from the Terminal.
Copy to clipboard the license key you have received by email and paste it in the license registration dialog box from the application.

Uninstalling the Application

Backup all valuable data from the Oxygen XML Author folder.
Move to trash the Oxygen XML Author folder and empty the trash.

Requirements:

Supports Mountain Lion (10.8), Mavericks (10.9), Yosemite (10.10), El Capitan (10.11) and Sierra (10.12).
On macOS Sierra (10.12) Oxygen requires the option System Preferences > Security & Privacy, Allow apps downloaded from to be set to App Store and identified developers during the installation phase.
If Oxygen fails to start on macOS Sierra (10.12), you should clear the quarantine flag from its folder by running this command in a Terminal (you will be prompted to enter your password due to sudo):
sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Oxygen XML Author"
Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Mac with 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended) and 1 GB free disk space.

Linux 64 bit (Includes Java SE 8u102)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 184.3MB
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Linux 32 bit (Includes Java SE 8u102)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 186.4MB
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Instructions:

Install

After downloading open a shell and, cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
At the prompt type:
sh ./oxygenAuthor-32bit.sh or
sh ./oxygenAuthor-64bit.sh.
Another solution is to download and install the "All platforms" distribution.

Run

To run the application start oxygenAuthor18.1 or oxygenAuthor.sh from the product installation directory.
Copy to clipboard the license key you have received by email and paste it in the license registration dialog box from the application.

Uninstalling the Application

Backup all valuable data from the oXygen installation folder.
Run the uninstall script from the installation folder.

Requirements:

Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium III class system with 1 GB of RAM and 400 MB free disk space.
Recommended hardware configuration is dual core CPU with 4 GB of RAM.
oXygen may work very well with JVM implementations from other vendors than Oracle/Sun but if there are incompatibilities then they will not be fixed in future oXygen releases.
oXygen does not work with the GNU libgcj Java virtual machine.

Java Web Start
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Click here if you want to run the editor using the JavaWebStart distribution directly from the <oXygen/> website.
See this procedure if you want to build a custom JavaWebStart distribution.
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016

All (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix, etc)
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 175.2MB
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Instructions:

Install

After downloading extract the oxygenAuthor.tar.gz archive.
Do not extract the archive in a folder where a previous version of oXygen is already installed.

Run

On Windows run oxygenAuthor.bat.
On Mac OS X run oxygenAuthorMac.sh.
On Unix, Linux, Solaris, etc. run oxygenAuthor.sh.
Copy to clipboard the license key you have received by email and paste it in the license registration dialog box from the application.

Uninstalling the Application

Backup all valuable data from the oXygen folder.
Delete the oxygenAuthor folder.

Requirements:

Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium III or PowerPC G4 class system with 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended) and 400 MB free disk space.
Java SE 6 or later from Oracle/Sun (available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/).
For Mac OS X a Java SE 6 Runtime Environment from Apple is required.
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 is available at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573
Java for OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 is available at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
oXygen may work very well with JVM implementations from other vendors but if there are incompatibilities then they will not be fixed in future oXygen releases.
oXygen does not work with the GNU libgcj Java virtual machine.

Requirements Java Web Start:

The latest JRE must be installed.
The web server must have associated the extension .jnlp to the mime type application/x-java-jnlp-file. For example, if you are using the Apache server you have to add to the httpd.conf the line: AddType application/x-java-jnlp-file .jnlp

Eclipse 3.6 - 3.8, 4.2 - 4.6 Plugin Update Site
URL:
http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Author/Eclipse/site.xml
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch.
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016

Instructions

Eclipse 3.6 - 3.8, 4.2 - 4.6 Plugin zip distribution
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 178.2MB
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Eclipse 3.6 - 3.8, 4.2 - 4.6 Language Pack
Version: 18.1 (See release notes)
Original release date: October 18, 2016
Supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch.
Build id: 2016112217
Build date: November 22, 2016
Size: 0.1MB
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Zip distribution - Eclipse 3.6 - 3.8, 4.2 - 4.6:

Install

After downloading the corresponding archive, extract its content in the "dropins" subfolder of the Eclipse folder. To avoid errors reported due to long file paths, while expanding the archive, we recommend using 7-Zip file archiver tool.

Run

Restart Eclipse.

Uninstalling the Eclipse plugin

Delete the plugin folder (oxygenxml.*) from the "dropins" subfolder of the Eclipse folder.

Requirements:

Minimum hardware configuration is Intel Pentium III or PowerPC G4 class system with 2 GB of RAM (4 GB recommended) and 400 MB free disk space.
There are known serious UI problems using the plugin with Eclipse 4.5 on Linux with GTK 3.0. (Eclipse is not yet fully supporting GTK 3.0). We recommend using Eclipse 4.4 on these systems.
Java SE 6 or later from Oracle/Sun (available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/).
For Mac OS X a Java SE 6 Runtime Environment from Apple is required.
Java for Mac OS X 10.6 is available at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573
Java for OS X 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 is available at http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
oXygen may work very well with JVM implementations from other vendors but if there are incompatibilities then they will not be fixed in future oXygen releases.
oXygen does not work with the GNU libgcj Java virtual machine.

Update Site Distribution - Eclipse 3.6 - 3.7, 4.2 - 4.6

Download and Install

Start Eclipse. Choose the menu option: Help / Install New Software.
In the Install dialog box press Add button.
Enter the value into the Location field of the Add Site dialog box. Press the OK button.
Select the checkbox corresponding to the oXygen XML plugin and press the Next button.
Select the oXygen XML plugin and press the Finish button.
At the end of the installation a confirmation dialog box will inform you that the install process was completed and will ask for a restart of Eclipse. You must accept the Eclipse restart.

Update Site Distribution

Uninstalling the Eclipse plugin

In Eclipse go to the main menu: Help > About, press Installation Details.
In the Installed Software tab select oXygen from the list of plugins and press Uninstall...
Press Finish to confirm uninstalling and restart Eclipse when prompted to.