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August 2007 Archives

JAX-WS RI 2.1.2 RC1 released

I have just released JAX-WS 2.1.2 RC1, Core of Metro. The JAX-WS RI 2.1.2 RC1 bits are part of Metro 1.0 M6 release. Metro 1.0 M6 is integrated with Glassfish v2 Build 58b(RC3) so you can just get Glassfish v2 RC3 and get all of Metro stack  (JAX-WS RI and WSIT) with it.

JAX-WS RI 2.1.2 RC1 is tested with all of the unit, SQE and TCK tests. This release candidate is targeted for the JAX-WS 2.1.2 and Metro 1.0 FCS release. If all goes well we are looking for FCS release around Sept 17th.

Download, use it and continue providing feedback to users@metro.dev.java.net or to the Metro Forum and report your issues and feature requests at IssueTracker.

Running wsimport got easier!

I recently updated my Vista notebook with Cygwin and tried to run wsimport CLI. Guess what, it did not run. Part of the problem was the wsimport shell script. It is always problematic maintaining scripts across various platforms.

This prompted me to think that why do we even need a shell script to run wsimport. We should simply be able to run it as:

$java -jar $JAXWS_HOME/lib/jawws-tools.jar endpoint.wsdl

So, I enabled this support in JAX-WS RI 2.1.3 code base and wsimport.sh|bat are modified accordingly. Try it from the nightly and send us feedback to us.

Metro and NuSOAP interoperability

Web Services is all about interoperability. Synodinos has written a nice blog about JAX-WS RI - Metro Core and NuSOAP (SOAP PHP toolkit) interoperability.

JAX-WS RI brings in core interoperability, such as WS-I BP 1.1, AP 1.0 and SSBP 1.0 in to Metro stack. This ensures interoperability interoperability in the web services description (WSDL/XML Schema) and also SOAP wire level protocol. We have verified interoperability for the basic web services with various other stacks such as .NET 2.0/3.0, Axis, Xfire etc.

Metro also bring in the advanced web services, such as message level security(Ws-Security), quality of service(WS-RM), brokered trust(WS-Trust/WS-Secure Conversation) through WSIT which are fully tested to be .NET 3.0 interoperable.

In summary use Metro and get a comprehensive interoperability. Keep sending us your feedback at Metro forum or the user alias.

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