Using Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) technology to design and develop Web services yields many benefits, including simplifying the construction of Web services and Web service clients in Java, easing the development and deployment of Web services, and speeding up Web services development. This tutorial walks you through how to do all of this and more by developing a sample order-processing application that exposes its functionality as Web services. After going through this tutorial, you'll be able to apply these concepts and your newly acquired knowledge to develop Web services for your application using JAX-WS technology.... more »

RSF version 0.7.2 has been released. RSF promotes minimal and clean designs - in contrast to the majority of current Java frameworks which proliferate with increasingly complex schemes for managing stateful components, RSF cuts through the issue by promoting and facilitating zero server state designs. This brings web development more in line with the web - as well as making fewer demands on server resources, it arguably delivers apps which users find more idiomatic and intuitive.... more »

Apache ServiceMix is an extensible messaging bus for service integration, mediation and composition and its related components. ServiceMix provides a JBI 1.0 ESB and component suite.... more »

I'm looking for feedback on some new features being discussed in the EJB 3.1 expert group. Click here for full details.... more »

I am very happy to announce that we have releases Seam 2.0.0 CR1. If you are impatient, you can get it here.... more »

Spring Batch 1.0-m2-SNAPSHOT is available publicly (source code only for now) at sourceforge at https://springframework.svn.sourcefo...ng-batch/trunk. The m2 release proper is expected imminently. We think we can expect at least one more milestone release before we get to a release candidate. More detail, and a features list will be posted on the website at... more »

Andy Piper of BEA has just blogged on WebLogic Event Server - Why we used Spring. One key driver for BEA making Spring central to this product's programming model: Spring's ubiquity. "The answer is pretty simple - use something that developers are already familiar with. Hence, in a word, Spring."... more »

Ervacon has published the first book dedicated entirely to Spring Web Flow: Working with Spring Web Flow.... more »

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.1 M4 has been released! This milestone release introduces:... more »

Spring Web Services has been attracting a lot of attention since its release last month. In this DDJ Interview, Arjen Poutsma, project lead for the Spring Web Services framework, talks about the importance of flexibility in addressing the O/X "impedance mismatch" between XML and Java.... more »