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.

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