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Metro 1.0.1 and 1.1 Released

Metro team is pleased to announce the release of Metro 1.1 and Metro 1.0.1. Both these releases are fully tested with many thousands of SQE/Unit/Compatibility/Interop tests on Glassfish V2 UR1.

Metro 1.0.1 is a restricted bug fix release and is integrated with Glassfish V2 UR1.

Metro 1.0.1 includes WSIT 1.0.1 and JAX-WS RI 2.1.2.1.

• WSIT 1.0.1 changes
• JAX-WS RI 2.1.2.1 changes

Metro 1.1 release includes WSIT 1.1 and JAX-WS RI 2.1.3. Metro 1.1 is a stand alone release but can be easily installed on Glassfish v2 UR1, see the instructions on how to here. Good news is that Metro 1.1.1 which is a bug fix and selected feature release of Metro 1.1, will be integrated in to upcoming Glassfish v2.1 (Sailfin). See Metro roadmap for details.

Here are some key features in Metro 1.1

• Efficient Handler using Handler<Message> support. See Rama's blog
• Large and Streaming attachment support
• XML Schema validation support for SOAP message
• Authentication support in wsimport
• Additional header support
• Early Access WS-Reliable Messaging 1.1 support
• Early Access Kerberose Token support

• JAX-WS RI 2.1.3
• WSIT 1.1

For the users who like JAX-WS RI stand alone bundle and Maven releases there is corresponding release of JAX-WS RI, JAX-WS RI 2.1.3 and JAX-WS RI 2.1.2.1. These version are also released in the JAX-WS Maven repository. See the detailed announcement here.

What is next? We are planning Metro 1.2 that will be released around March 2008 and also on Metro 1.1.1. Metro 1.1.1 will be integrated with upcoming Glassfish v2.1. See the details on Metro roadmap.

Continue sending your feedbacks to the forum and to the mailing list.

Metro Roadmap

There have been many postings on Metro forum and elsewhere about the Metro roadmap. In fact we have been working on it and it took more time that expected but better late than never.

Here are key points about Metro release

• Bundles stable versions of JAX-WS RI and WSIT
• WSIT will no longer have a separate release, it will be part of Metro bundle
• We will keep releasing JAX-WS RI as a separate bundle as it is an RI of JSR-224, at least for sometime
• Any of JAX-WS RI releases will be completely synchronized with the Metro release
• Each Metro release will be tested on the latest available stable Glassfish release on JDK5 and JDK6 on linux/solaris/windows

Now an update on what are we up to:

Key fatures in upcoming Metro 1.1

1. Large and Streaming Attachment Support
2. Efficient Handler - Handler<Message>
3. XML Schema validation support
4. New wsimport features and enhancements
5. Early access Reliable Messaging 1.1 and Kerberos Token Support

With respect to JAX-WS RI, we are working on JAX-WS RI 2.1.3 and it goes in to Metro 1.1. As mentioned above the JAX-WS RI releases will be completely synchronized with the Metro release. So stay tuned, JAX-WS RI 2.1.3 is also in final testing phase and close to getting released along with Metro 1.1.

Metro on SJS Web Server 7 Update 1

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