So what's keeping the JAXWS team busy these days? Well, we have been working on JAXWS 2.0.1 for improved performance and making it pluggable. This required re-architecting the runtime significantly. The new architecture is based on key abstractions such as Pipe and Message. Each Pipe works on the Message and gives it to the next or previous Pipe in the chain.

This allows plugging in features such as WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-Security, WS-Metadata Exchange etc. One can also write custom transport and binding. wsit a.k.a. Project Tango uses this architecture to plug-in support for WS-Security, WS-Trust, WS-Reliable Messaging etc.

Here are the new things that JAXWS 2.0.1 brings in,

• Better Performance. The numbers are showing really good improvement, we will post these in latter post
• New Architecture Plugging in transport. Oleksiy has implemented the JMS and TCP transports using this new architecture
• Custom message processing using Pipe

We are working to make it stable and feature complete with respect to our previous release JAXWS 2.0 FCS. The nightly bits are regularly posted and soon we will be posting a stable release. Try out the nightly and send your comments to the JAXWS user mailing list and stay tuned for more...