The JAX-RPC 2.0 SI has been re-architectured since 1.1. The new architecture will make it easier to add new capabilities in the future.
The new architecture allows for:
Multiple Transports
- EA currently supports HTTP
Multiple Encodings
- EA supports XML as text.
- The next EA will include MTOM/XOP and Fast Infoset
Multiple Protocols
- EA supports SOAP 1.1
- The next EA will include...
The JAX-RPC 2.0 Standard Implementation Early Access has just been released to the JAX-RPC project and you can download it here.
I would like to highlight some of the new features available in this release here.
JAXB data binding
JAXB 2.0 Early Access is also available. JAX-RPC 2.0 uses JAXB for all of its data binding. This means that much more of XML Schema can be handled compared to JAX...