After being in the works for about six months, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released! In this post, I'd like to go over some of the major new features.

New Transports

The 1.5 release includes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code changes: just add a bit of configuration, and you're off! The JMS transport integrates nicely with Spring 2's Message-Driven POJO model, as indicated by the following piece of configuration taken from the airline sample application:

<jms:listener-container connection-factory="connectionFactory">
  <jms…

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released!

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This final release candidate the following new features over 1.0.3:

• Two new transports: JMS and email, both for client and server,
  
• WSS4J-based WS-Security implementation, which allows for WS-Security on non-SUN JDKs (i.e. WebSphere) and JDK 1.4,
• WS-Addressing support for both client and server, supporting the August 2004 and final versions of the specification,
  
• Native support for Java 6, including JAXP 1.4, and the bundled SAAJ 1.3 and JAXB 2.0,
  
• Two new Spring namespaces, which drastically decrease the amount of XML required to configure marshallers and typical Spring-WS constructs,
  
• Spring-WS jars are now OSGi bundles,
  
• A new, client-side interception mechanism, including WS-Security support,
  
• @Endpoints are now @Components, so they are automatically picked up when using Spring 2.5 component scanning
• A new and improved XSD-to-WSDL generator that inlines included and imported XSDs
• Support for Spring Security
• Support for the Java 6 HTTP Server
• Two new samples, showing Plain Old XML usage and WS-Addressing with the Java 6 HTTP server

and many small improvements and bug fixes. Check the changelog for more details.

We recommend upgrading to Spring Web Services 1.5 from all previous versions, in order to benefit from these new features!

The 1.5 series is 95% backwards compatible, though support for Java 1.3 has been dropped, in favor of Java 1.6.

Cheers,

Arjen Poutsma
Spring Web Services Lead

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 has been released.

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This milestone release introduces:

• JMS transport support, for both client- and server-side
• Email transport support, also for both client and server
• Two new Spring namespaces, which drastically decrease the amount of XML to configure marshallers and typical Spring-WS constructs
• SOAP 1.2 Compatible WSDL descriptor generation
• Spring-WS jars are now OSGi bundles

Additionally, there are other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Spring-WS 1.5.0 M1 is the first milestone in the 1.5 series, which - in addition to the aforementioned features - will include support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security for the client-side and Java 1.4, @Endpoint component scanning, and more.

For more information, see Spring Web Services.

After two years of development, we are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 is now available.

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Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on the creation of document-driven, contract-first web services. The key features of Spring Web Services include...

• Making the best practice the easy practice: Spring Web Services makes enforcing best practices easier. This includes practices such as the WS-I basic profile, Contract-First development, and having a loose coupling between contract and implementation.
• Powerful mappings: You can route an incoming XML request to any handler depending on message payload, SOAP Action header, or XPath expression.
• XML API support: Incoming XML messages can be handled in standard JAXP APIs such as DOM, SAX, and StAX, but also JDOM, dom4j, XOM, or even marshalling technologies.
• Flexible XML Marshalling: The Object/XML Mapping module in the Spring Web Services distribution supports JAXB 1 and 2, Castor, XMLBeans, JiBX, and XStream.  Because it is a separate module, you can use it in other environments as well.
  
• Reuse of your Spring expertise: Spring-WS uses Spring application contexts for all configuration, which gets you up-and-running quickly. Also, the architecture of Spring-WS resembles that of Spring-MVC.
• Support for WS-Security: WS-Security allows you to sign SOAP messages, encrypt and decrypt them, or authenticate against them. And it integrates with Spring Security!

Learn more about Spring Web Services at The Spring Experience, December 12 - 15, 2007 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. Arjen will deliver two sessions on Spring Web Services there: Introducing Spring Web Services, and WS-DuckTyping with Web Services.

See the release notes for a list of fixes since 1.0-RC2.

Finally, a big word of thanks to all involved. It would not have been possible without you!

We are pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 RC2 has been released.

 
This is the second release candidate of Spring-WS, a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services. This release contains fixes for bugs discovered since the RC1 release along with minor improvements.  In addition, the "Airline" sample application has been enhanced to use Java 5 features including the new @Endpoint programming model, JPA support, @Transactional, and more.

The next release is planned in a couple of weeks. If no major bugs are found this release will be promoted to 1.0!

For more information visit the Spring Web Services site.

Following up on my post on WS-DuckTyping, I thought it would be interesting to show what support Spring Web Services offers for XPath. Some of these features are available right now, but most will be part of the RC1 release we will release later this month. Throughout this post I will be using the contacts xml file defined in item 35 of Effective XML, by Rusty Harold.

XPathExpression

One of the options that has been available for quite a while is the XPathExpression. This is an abstraction over compiled XPath expressions, such as the Java 5 XPathExpression, and Jaxen XPath.

Recently, I've added the XPathExpressionFactoryBean, to make it easier to inject XPath expressions into your beans, like so:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/200…

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 M1 has been released. Download | Documentation | Changelog

This release is the first milestone of Spring-WS: a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services.

Spring-WS 1.0 M1 includes:

• A streaming SOAP message model based on Apache Axiom,
• WS-Security support that integrates with Acegi,
• JAXB 2.0 marshaller support,
• Many further improvements and fixes for issues discovered since 0.9.1.

See the changelog for details.

For more information about Spring-WS and its goals, refer to the Spring-WS homepage.