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Spring WS plugin version 0.1 released

April 20, 2009 by russmiles | spring, web services, springws, xml, soap | 1 comments.
The very first version of the Spring WS plugin has been released. This plugin takes the best practice, document-based, contract-first approach to traditional (i.e. SOAP or POX) web service development and aims to make it the easy practice. Highlights include:
  • A new 'Endpoint' artefact for providing web services, complete with default conventions for mapping the payload of incoming XML documents to an invoke method.
  • A new 'EndpointFunctionalTest' artefact that makes it simple to create functional tests for your endpoints against a full web service stack.
  • A Groovier WebServiceTemplate for consuming web services.
Like any 0.1 release, any and all feedback is hugely appreciated.

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Wow, you read my mind.  I was looking for such a component and sure someone would develop it eventually - an voila, there it is!!!  Now the only goodie to complete the stack would be an Xsd2Groovy builder to generate the code that produces and consumes XML instance documents based on the same XSD that describes the WS contract...  I mean, we do want contract-first, right? In the documentation presented thus far there is no mention of the contract we're building the endpoint for! 

Unless I missed something ;-)
Apr 21, 2009 20:04 PM jneuhaus

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