Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 2.0 Release Candidate 2 has been released!

This is the second release candidate in the 2.0 release cycle. The most important new feature in this release is the update of the Spring-WS XML namespace, which now contains <sws:annotation-driven/> and <sws:interceptors/>elements (similar to the Spring-MVC namespace), and <sws:static-wsdl/> and <sws:dynamic-wsdl/> for exporting your WSDLs. All of these features are described in the updated reference documentation, which you can find here:

http://static.springsource.org/sprin...eference/html/

We consider this release (RC2) complete. If no major new issues are found, we will release 2.0.0-RELEASE in the first half of January 2011.

While we did make some changes, Spring-WS 2.0 should be a drop-in replacement for 1.5. The one exception is the 2.0 version of the XSD namespace, where we removed <sws:marshalling-endpoints/> and <sws:xpath-endpoints/> in favor of <sws:anotation-driven/>. To keep using the two former elements, please make sure to use the 1.5 version of the XSD, like so:

Code:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:sws="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services" xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-1.5.xsd">
To upgrade to <sws:annotation-driven/>, use the 2.0 version of the XSD:

Code:
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:sws="http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services" xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services http://www.springframework.org/schema/web-services/web-services-2.0.xsd">
Please file a JIRA issue if you find any other regressions in the 2.0 RC2 release.

Please see the changelog for more details. If you have any further requests/issues, please use JIRA or reply to this post.

For more information, see http://static.springframework.org/spring-ws/sites/2.0

Note that this milestone will not be uploaded to Maven Central, but only to our own milestone repo:

Code:
<repository>
  <id>spring-maven-milestone</id>
  <name>Springframework Maven Repository</name>
  <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>
Code:
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0-RC2</version>
</dependency>
When 2.0 reaches GA, we will upload the jars to maven central as usual.