Doug Kohlert's Blog: April 2007 Archive

Posted by kohlert on April 12, 2007 at 01:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sun has recently enhanced its Java Technology and Web Services web site. The new site has been totally revamped with "tabbed" navigation, making it easier to learn about Sun's Web Services offerings.

The new site's Overview tab is the perfect landing place to see what is the latest and greatest in Sun's Web Services offerings. From the new site you can learn about WSIT, JAX-WS, JAXB, JAXP, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, and XWSS on the Technologies tab. The Reference tab provides links to all the underlying web services technologies and their related specifications. The Community tab shows various links so that you can become involved in Sun's web services community and even get involved in the development effort if you so choose. The Support tab gives links to where you can file bugs for and get help with the various technologies. Finally, the Downloads tab is a convenient place to be able to download the various web services technologies.

New JAX-WS 2.1 Specification available for review

Posted by kohlert on April 06, 2007 at 02:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

JAX-WS 2.1 was written dependent on the Web Services 1.0 - WSDL Binding candidate recommendation fully expecting this CR to become are recommendation. However, after JAX-WS 2.1 was approved by the EC, the Web Service Addressing Working Group decided to replace the WSDL Binding CR with a new Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata working draft. We felt that it would be prudent to respin the JAX-WS 2.1 specification to remove all dependencies on the WSDL Binding specification. In doing so, none of the JAX-WS APIs will be removed or modified with the exception of the described behavior. Therefore, the revised JAX-WS 2.1 APIs will be binary compatible with the original version. However, since there is no longer a standard way to represent the use of WS-Addressing in a WSDL, using Addressing in a portable manner will be somewhat more burdensome with the revised APIs. The revised JAX-WS specification will not reference the new Metadata specification at this time as it is not yet a recommendation. However, a future version of JAX-WS will reference the final Metadata specification and using addressing will be easier to use once this is done. JAX-WS 2.1 implementations are free to insert non-standard extensibility elements into the WSDL to reflect the use of Addressing.

The new specification can be reviewed here.

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