Work has begun on the JAX-WS 2.1 Maintenance Release. I will be the JAX-WS 2.1 MR spec lead and Arun Gupta will co-lead. The main purpose of this MR is to add WS-Addressing capabilities to JAX-WS as Arun mentioned in his blog. Some other problems will also be addressed such as the type substitution problem that some JAX-WS developers have encountered.

You should be seeing an some development of the 2.1 version of the RI in the near future.

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