JAX-WS Reference Implementation

JAX-WS RI 2.2 is a Web Services framework that provides tools and infrastructure to develop Web Services solutions for the end users and middleware developers.

• Standards
  • Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Core
  • Web Services Addressing 1.0 - SOAP Binding
  • Web Services Addressing 1.0 - Metadata
  • Web Services Addressing 1.0 - WSDL Binding (RI specific support)
  • WS-Addressing  - Member Submission
  • SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
  • REST and XML/HTTP
  • WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
  • WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0
  • WS-I Attachment Profile 1.0
  • MTOM
• Extensions (May not be final unless says so)
  • Web Services Interoperable Technologies ( WSIT) - enables .NET 3.x interoperability
    • WS-ReliableMessaging
    • WS-Policy
    • WS-MEX
    • WS-Security/WS-Security Policy
    • WS-Trust/WS-Secure Conversation
    • WS-AT/WS-Tx (Supported only on Glassfish v2)
    • SOAP/TCP
  • Spring support
  • Pluggable Transport
    • In-VM transport
    • Servlet transport (bundled with the RI)
    • JMS transport
    • SOAP over TCP transport (part of WSIT)
  • FastInfoset (bundled with JAX-WS 2.2 RI)
    • ITU-T Rec. X.891 | ISO/IEC 24824-1
  • JBI Service Engine and Binding Component(part of Glassfish v2)
  • HTTP Binding Component, used by Open JBI component
• Data binding - JAXB 2.2 RI
• Server Side Asynchrony - AsyncProvider
• Stateful Web Services
• Support for custom WebServiceFeature
• Hosting API
  • These APIs can be used b y a J2EE application server to integrate JAX-WS RI 2.2 for hosting JAX-WS services
• Endpoint Deployment
  • Glassfish v2
    • Tightly integrated with Glassfish
    • Supports EJB and Web endpoints
    • 109 based deployment support for better portability
    • JAX-WS RI specific deployment descriptor support
  • Sun One Application Server 9.0 ur1
  • Light weight HTTP server
    • On JDK 1.5 through http.jar distributed with the JAX-WS 2.2 FCS RI bundle
    • Bundled with JDK 6
  • Any other container that supports Servlet 2.4, such as Tomcat, Jetty, Geronimo, JBoss, Resin, ... You name it!