XML News from Sunday, October 26, 2003

Sun has released the Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.3. This includes the reference implementation for JAXB 1.0 as well as

• Java Server Faces 1.0EA4
• Java Server Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1 EA
• XML and Web Services Security 1.0EA2
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 1.0.2
• Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) 1.1.1
• Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.2.4
• Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0.5
• Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.1
• SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) v1.2
• JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.0.3
• Java WSDP Registry Server 1.0_06
• Ant Build Tool 1.5.4
• Apache Tomcat 5.0 dev container

Version 1.3 now supports the WS-I basic profile 1.0. It also fixes assorted bugs.

RenderX has released version 3.6.3 of XEP, its payware XSL Formatting Objects to PDF and PostScript converter. Version 3.6.3 is a bug fix release. The basic client is $299.95. The developer edition with an API is $999.95. The server version is $4999.95. Updates from 3.0 are free.