The first preview release of Spring Web Services is available for download. Spring-WS 0.9 includes these features:

* Object/XML mapping support, adding a unified interface and exception hierarchy to:
    - Castor,
    - JAXB,
    - JiBX,
    - XmlBeans
* Flexible message dispatching mechanism, resembling Spring-MVC's DispatcherServlet.
* Various styles of endpoints, including endpoints based on DOM, SAX, StAX, and XML marshalling.
* Exception to SOAP Fault mapping

Spring WS is a document-central way of implementing web services that includes a flexible extensible message handling mechanism. It does not tie your web service to a Java interface. Instead it offers a layering mechanism that seperates your web services code from your business logic, similar to how Spring MVC seperatespresentation logic from business logic.

The Airline sample application that is included with this release demonstrates typical usage of Spring WS.

The release can be found at the Spring Framework download site. For the list of planned features, and currently known issues, refer to the Spring-WS JIRA instance.

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