A posting from Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart (Sun Microsystems) announces the early access release of the Java Web Services Developer Pack, available from the 'Java Technology and Web Services' web site. The package "provides access to early versions of the standard Java APIs for XML processing and web services that are being developed through the JCP process. The Java Web Services Developers Pack (Java WSDP) is an all-in-one download containing provides key technologies to simplify building of web services using the Java2 Platform. It provides early releases of base XML technology (JAXP 1.2, including XML schema support), SOAP based RPC (JAX-RPC), SOAP-based messaging (JAXM), and registry client support (JAXR). Although this is an EA1 of the product that Sun developers are targeting for release in summer 2002, they also include a tutorial as well as a number of additional features to help you get up and running quickly, including building tools (Ant Build Tool 1.4.1), a UDDI registry for testing, some management (more in later EAs), installation, etc. They also include a version of Apache Tomcat so that developers can start using the JWSDP right away; the pieces depend only on J2EE 1.3 APIs."
Contents: The technologies comprising the Java Web Services Developers Pack include:
- Java XML Pack Release which includes the following:
- Java API for XML Messaging ("JAXM") 1.0 EA 1
- Java API for XML Processing ("JAXP") 1.2 EA 1 (with XML Schema support)
- Java API for XML Registries ("JAXR") 1.0 EA 1
- Java API for XML-based RPC ("JAX-RPC") 1.0 EA 1
- JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library ("JSTL") 1.0 EA 3
- Ant Build Tool 1.4.1
- Java WSDP Registry Server 1.0 EA 1
- Tomcat Java Servlet & JavaServer Pages container 4.1-dev
