Interface21 Introduces Spring Web Services 1.0

August 23, 2007; 06:30 AM
Interface21, a leading provider of trusted open source software for building and deploying mission-critical enterprise applications, announced the release of Spring Web Services 1.0, a comprehensive Web services stack for developing and consuming SOAP and POX (Plain Old XML) Web services. Spring Web Services 1.0 facilitates the creation of contract-first, document-driven Web services, delivering the flexibility, productivity and ease of use benefits of the Spring Framework to the Web services environment.

Spring Web Services 1.0 provides a more flexible, powerful Web services framework by facilitating best practices such as contract-first Web service development, the WS-I basic profile, and loose coupling between contract and implementation, allowing for the creation of flexible Web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads. By providing developers with a simpler approach to contract-first development, Spring Web Services 1.0 resolves many of the interoperability issues associated with typical Web services approaches.

Additional features of Spring Web Services 1.0 include:

• Powerful Mappings – Incoming XML requests can be distributed to any object, depending on message payload, SOAP Action header, or an XPath expression.
• XML API Support – Incoming XML messages can be handled in standard JAXP APIs such as DOM, SAX, and StAX, but also JDOM, dom4j, XOM, or even marshalling technologies.
• Flexible XML Marshalling – The Object/XML Mapping module in the Spring Web Services distribution supports JAXB 1 and 2, Castor, XMLBeans, JiBX, and XStream. Because it is a separate module, it can be used in non-Web services code as well.
• Reuse of Spring Framework Concepts – Uses Spring application contexts for all configurations. Additionally, the architecture of Spring Web Services resembles that of Spring MVC.
• WS-Security Support – Allows developers to sign SOAP messages, encrypt and decrypt them, or authenticate against them.
• Integration with Spring Security – The WS-Security implementation of Spring Web Services provides integration with Spring (Acegi) Security, enabling developers to use existing configuration for SOAP service as well.

“The Spring Framework has proven to be an extremely powerful integration technology, due in large part to its modular architecture,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of Interface21 and founder of the Spring Framework. “With Spring Web Services 1.0, we have applied these same modular design concepts in order to deliver advanced integration and a more flexible, powerful programming model to developers working with sophisticated Web services.”

Availability

Spring Web Services 1.0 is available for download. For more information, including software downloads, visit http://www.springframework.org/download.

About Interface21

Interface21 is a leading provider of trusted open source software for mission-critical enterprise applications. Interface21 created and sustains the development of the Spring Framework, the leading Java™ and Java EE™ application framework. Through the Spring family of products, Interface21 has helped hundreds of organizations, including some of the world’s largest financial institutions and public sector clients, build and deploy mission-critical applications that boost developer productivity and increase enterprise ROI. For more information, please visit http://www.interface21.com.