Apache Woden 1.0M9 released

Apache Woden is a Java library for reading, manipulating, creating and writing WSDL 2.0 documents also facilitates to convert WSDL 1.1 documents to WSDL 2.0. Apache Woden provide API for WSDL 2.0 spec and two implementations based on W3C DOM and Apache Axiom OM . Woden primarily used with some other Apache projects like Axis2 and ServiceMix . Last week Woden team manged to release long waiting 1.0M9 version and it provides lot of new features and improvements over older versions. I have mentioned some of those important features here.

• Until this release Woden project used both Maven and Ant partially for project building. With this release Woden source completely refactored to into several Maven modules according to the functionality and underline implementation. Maven dependencies/ Unit tests also have refactored according to each module.
• A serialization approach for WSDL 2.0 Component model was introduced with this release this was a one significant missing piece. Now its possible to serialize WSDL 2.0 documents in both Component and Element model.
• Woden tool module is another attractive module that facilitate convert existing WSDL 1.1 documents into WSDL 2.0 documents. This is a vital tool if someone want to migrate from WSDL 1.1 to WSDL 2.0. Woden Converter Maven plug-in and Woden Converter Ant Task are also useful additions.
• With this release Woden no longer depends on Apache Xerces and possible to plug any JAXP implementations. I have noticed some user issues on Axis2 list when deploying axis2 on JBoss 4/5 due to incompatibility issues of Apache Xerces libraries.
• Private QName class was moved to a new module so that it doesn't make conflicts with standard QName class.
• Woden no longer depends on Apache Xerces and possible to plug any JAXP implementation and work properly with JDK default implementation .
• Replaced Woden's simple logging mechanism by Commons logging API. This gives flexibilities to users to control debug levels.
• Equal methods implementation for component model
• Improved API for OM implementation.