Spring Web Services
Built on the Spring Framework, Spring Web Services (Spring-WS) is a Java-based framework for managing SOAP and Plain Old XML (POX) web services. A key goal of Spring-WS was to take the best practices in web services easier to implement. Spring-WS uses best practices such as the contract-first, document-driven, WS-I, and loose coupling between contract and implementation best practices to provide more flexibility and avoid common interoperability issues in creating and consuming web services.
Spring-WS supports standard JAXP APIs including DOM, SAX, and StAX, as well as JDOM, dom4j, XOM, or even marshalling technologies. Spring-WS also includes a separate Object/XML Mapping module to support JAXB 1 and 2, Castor, XMLBeans, JiBX, and XStream. The Object/XML Mapping module can also be used in non-web services code.
Current GA Version: Spring Web Services 1.0.2
Latest Version: Spring Web Services 1.5-M1
Spring Web Services is licensed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0.
The Spring Web Services Links
Spring Web Services News Articles
| DATE | ARTICLE NAME | AUTHOR | PUBLICATION |
| Aug. 24. 07 | Best Practices in Spring Web Services and Java | John Dorsey | Dr. Dobb's Journal |
| Aug. 21. 07 | Spring Web Services 1.0 Released | John Dorsey | Dr. Dobb's Journal |
| Aug. 21. 07 | Spring Web Services 1.0 Release | Kurt Mackie | Application Development Trends |
| Aug. 21. 07 | Spring in the air for Web Services | Paul Krill | InfoWorld |
| Aug. 21. 07 | Comprehensive Web Services Stack: Spring Web Services 1.0 Launched | News Desk | SOA World Magazine |
| Aug. 21. 07 | Interface21 announces Spring Web Services 1.0 | Joseph Ottinger | TheServerSide.com |