Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.0 RC1 has been released!

This is the first release candidate of Spring-WS: a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services. New in this release is:

  • Documentation: we now have over 60 pages of documentation, including chapters for both client- and server-side.
  • A new, annotation-based endpoint programming model. This model reduces the amount of XML configuration necessary, and allows you to inject the evaluation of an XPath evaludation in your endpoint.
  • MTOM attachment support. This includes marshalling support for JAXB2, so that you can marshal byte[] and DataHandlers to an external attachment.
  • And about 30 other bug fixes.


The next release is planned before the end of June, which can be either a second release candidate; or the 1.0 release!

For more information, see http://www.springframework.org/spring-ws.

Cheers,