${PRODUCT_NAME} is a Web Services framework that provides tools and infrastructure to develop Web Services solutions for the end users and middleware developers.

This release brings in the highly pluggable framework through abstractions such as Tube and Message. Refer to the latest architecture document. This architecture document is a glorified javadoc which includes all the JAX-WS RI specific APIs. ${PRODUCT_NAME} has many bug fixes made for interoperability with .NET 3.0. This is made mostly possible due to WSIT, which uses JAX-WS plugabble architecture to plug in support for WS-Metadata, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Transaction, WS-SecureConversation and WS-Security.

If you wish to use ${PRODUCT_NAME} in a Java EE container in a Java EE portable manner you need to use the standard Java EE 5 deployment descriptor; please refer to the Java EE 5 or Glassfish documentation/samples. The majority of the documentation included with JAX-WS is valid with Java EE 5 as well.

The documentation for ${PRODUCT_NAME} as well as the sample applications will be periodically updated in the JAX-WS project.

The architecture document describing the latest ${PRODUCT_NAME} can be found here.

Please go to http://jax-ws.dev.java.net for the latest documentation and samples.

The following applies to the JAX-WS standalone bundles.

If you intend to only invoke an already existing Web service, then alternatively you can use the wsimport and wsgen scripts in the bin directory of the ${PRODUCT_NAME} bundle.

JDK 6u4 includes JAX-WS 2.1 and JAXB 2.1 API and RI. ${PRODUCT_NAME} includes newer and enhanced RI of JAX-WS/JAXB 2.1. In order to run ${PRODUCT_NAME} you would need to put the jars in the classpath(endorsed mechanism is not required anymore).

Runtime Jars FastInfoset.jar, activation.jar, http.jar, jaxb-api.jar, jaxb-impl.jar, jaxws-api.jar, jaxws-rt.jar, jsr173_api.jar, jsr181-api.jar, jsr250-api.jar, mimepull.jar, resolver.jar, saaj-api.jar, saaj-impl.jar, woodstox.jar, stax-ex.jar, streambuffer.jar
Tooltime Jars All the runtime jars + jaxb-xjc.jar, jaxws-tools.jar

Changes from JAX-WS 2.1.4 RI

Go to http://jax-ws.dev.java.net.

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