XML News from Friday, June 25, 2004

Sun has released the Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.4. Version 1.4 supports the April 19, 2004 draft versions of the WS-I basic profile 1.1, the WS-I Attachment Profile 1.0, Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.0, and the WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0. Bundled Java APIs include:

• XML and Web Services Security 1.0 early access release 3
• XML Digital Signatures 1.0 early access release
• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 1.0.3
• Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.2.6
• Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0.6
• Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) 1.1.2
• SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) 1.2.1
• JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.1
• Java WSDP Registry Server 1.0_06 FCS
• Ant 1.5.4

Tomcat's been dropped form this release, but it should all work with Tomcat if you install that separately.

Potentially useful (especially if this gets into the next version of the JDK) is that they've now renamed the bundled Apache packages from org.apache to com.sun.org.apache so it should be more easily possible to replace them without having to use endorsed directories, -Xbootclasspath, and other CLASSPATH-fu.