Announcement:JBossWS-CXF 3.4.0.Beta2 is available!
JBossWS-CXF 3.4.0.Beta2 has just been released and is available on the Maven2 repository.
This JBossWS-CXF release completes the @Resource / @EJB injection integration. Besides that new usecases covering fully contract based ws-policy usage are supported, even without Spring libraries (see here for instance). Please take a look at the release notes for futher information.
JBossWS was born in 2006 to provide JBoss Application Server with a JAX-WS web service stack, being thus part of the JBoss' Java EE5 offering.
It all started from a complete rewrite of the previous J2EE-1.4 compatible Web Services implementation and ended up in a feature-rich JAX-WS compatible web service stack (JBossWS-Native) that contributed to the JBoss Application Server 5 successful JavaEE 5 certification.
At the beginning of 2008, Thomas Diesler and Heiko Braun released the first version of the new JBossWS Web Service Framework, which basically provides an integration layer of third party web service stacks on top of multiple JBoss AS versions.
Currently, with Alessio Soldano leading the community project and Richard Opalka and other developers contributing to it, the main focus is on providing additional value over the standards implemented in collaboration with the supported stacks' communities. This is achieved ensuring first class integration with the JBoss Application Server, common management, configuration, tooling, samples, etc.
Features, status, roadmap
JBossWS features include many specifications / standards implementations as well as additional features, options, tools to improve ease of use, endpoint management and monitoring, etc.
An high level road map regarding future features is available on the wiki, while a detailed road map for the upcoming versions is found in our issue tracking system. You are always welcome to request and contribute a new feature.
JBossWS - Native
- JAX-RPC and JAX-WS (2.2) support
- JBoss Application Server 5 (JavaEE 5 compliant) web service stack
- EJB 2.1, EJB3 and JSE endpoints
- Attachments Profile Version 1.0
- Support for MTOM/XOP and SwA-Ref
- WS-Security 1.0 for XML Encryption/Signature of the SOAP message
- WS-Addressing (W3C candidate release) and JSR-261
- WS-ReliableMessaging
- WS-Eventing
- WS-Policy
JBossWS - CXF
JBossWS-CXF provides most of the features coming with Apache CXF (including WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, basic WS-Trust, MTOM) as well as common JBossWS stack features like endpoint metrics, record management, endpoint address rewrite, etc.
Please refer to the JBossWS-CXF documentation for further details.
JBossWS - Metro
JBossWS-Metro provides most of the features coming with Glassfish Metro as well as common JBossWS stack features like endpoint metrics, record management, etc.
Please refer to the JBossWS-Metro documentation for further details.

