I am happy to announce that the web service team has released JBossWS-1.0.0 ready to be used in the upcomming JBoss-4.0.4 release.

 

 

 

 

JBossWS currently supports these standard J2EE-1.4 features:

• RPC style endpoints
• Document style endpoints (wrapped and bare)
• SOAP header values bound/unbound to endpoint parameters
• J2EE endpoint development model for EJB and Java
• J2EE client development model
• Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII)
• JAXRPC client/server side handlers
• Holders for INOUT/OUT parameters

JBossWS also supports:

• Message style endpoints
• Attachments Profile Version 1.0
• Dynamic client/server side handler injection
• Web Service Metadata (JSR-181)
• EJB3 Stateless Session endpoints
• WS-Security for XML Encryption/Signature of the SOAP message
• WS-Addressing and JSR-261
• WS-Transaction
• WS-Eventing
• WS-Policy
• MTOM/XOP

There is still some integration work to be done with respect to WS-Transaction and WS-Policy. (clarified on 05-May-2006)

 

 

 

 

Support for the WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and WS-BusinessActivity specifications will be provided by technology recently acquired from Arjuna Technologies Ltd. This technology will be present within the JBoss Transactions 4.2.1 release. Further information can be obtained from the JBoss Transactions Project. Both integration tasks are scheduled for jbossws-1.0.2.

 

 

The JBossWS-1.0.0 final release passes our internal testsuite, the testsuite for the jboss-4.0.x web service stack and the >2200 web service tests that come with Sun's Compatibility Test Suite (CTS). It comes with its own tool set (wstools) that generates portable J2EE-1.4 web service artifacts both from WSDL and from Java.

 

 

 

 

Please checkout the JBossWS project page, especially our extensive user guide. Most chapters in the user guide are backed up by standalone samples that are available from the JBossWS download page.

 

 

Over the next couple of months you will see us moving forward towards a J2EE-5.0 compliant implemenatation. This includes JAX-WS, JAXB, SOAP-1.3, etc.
If you can, come to JBoss World in Vegas and meet the team. I'll be happy to tell you more and receive your feed back.

 

 

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Thomas Diesler
Web Service Lead
JBoss Inc.