In the last couple of years, REST has emerged as a compelling alternative to SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based distributed architectures. So when we started to plan our work on the next major release of Spring – version 3.0, it was quite clear to us that we had to focus on making the development of 'RESTful' Web services and [...]

After being in the works for about six months, I'm happy to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been released! In this post, I'd like to go over some of the major new features.
New Transports
The 1.5 release includes two new transports: JMS and email. Using these new transports requires no Java code changes: just [...]

…and a little tale about why Spring does not necessarily lead to less code and certainly wasn't designed with this in mind (although of course it is a nice side-effect).

Following up on my post on WS-DuckTyping, I thought it would be interesting to show what support Spring Web Services offers for XPath. Some of these features are available right now, but most will be part of the RC1 release we will release later this month. Throughout this post I will be using the contacts [...]