The release 1.6 of the Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.6 has just been released and it is now available for download.

The release includes:

• Fast Infoset 1.0 FCS acceleration technology built on ASN.1 standards
• Service Registry early access release for SOA web services
• XML Web Services Security 2.0 early access
• JAXP 1.3.1 FCS release
• XML Digital Signatures 1.0 FCS release
• Sun Java Streaming XML Parser 1.0 EA release, a high performance implementation of JSR 173
• Bug fixes, refreshed core components (JAX-RPC, JAXB, JAXR, and more)

The large majority of these components are currently under community development as part of the JWSDP community , and the missing ones will be there in the near future. All these components, except for the Service Registry, are also part of project GlassFish.

Tags: glassfish, fastinfoset, jwsdp.