Spring Web Services

Spring Web Services uses XML files to let various applications or components talk to each other using a contract first SOAP service.

Developers can decide how a service reacts to queries and how it initiates communications, implementing industry known best practices and also putting security first.

Spring Web Services was created on the Spring Framework and can handle XML messages in standard JAXP APIs such as SAX, StAX, DOM, JDOM, dom4j, or XOM.

Features:

• Reuses your Spring code when possible
• Powerful mappings
• Flexible XML marshaling
• XML API support
• Spring Security integration
• WS-Security integration
• Maven support