About

Rebirth is a resource system for games, written in Java. You can write custom resource types to quickly make your game data-driven with a minimum amount of parsing and boilerplate code. File system monitoring means that you can make changes to your game’s data files while your game is running and have the changes reflected instantly with no additional work.

Features

Compact and flexible definition of resource types and conversion from xml
Minimal, human readable xml syntax.
Auto resources for automatic conversion to Java objects
Hooks for custom xml parsing, or loading of binary files
Main thread hooks for context-sensitive APIs (like OpenGL or OpenAL)
File system monitoring transparently reloads resources on the fly
Pluggable decoders for conversion of custom or 3rd party types
Priority system for multiple decoder styles
Auto array decoding from single type decoders
Instance decoders for context injection

Download

Rebirth.jar
Downloadable Javadoc
Browsable Javadoc
Test results

Tutorial

Quick Start Part 1 Guide– Initialisation, update, shutdown & your first resource.
Quick Start Part 2 – Including resources, parent resources & background loading.