OpenSAML user discussion

["Tom Scavo" <>]

Has anybody looked at this?

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Web Services Made Easy with JAX-WS 2.0
John Ferguson Smart, Java.net

JAX-WS (formerly JAX-RPC) is Sun's answer to the question of how to
develop web services easily in Java. JAX-WS 2.0 provides a library of
annotations and a toolkit of Ant tasks and command-line utilities that
hide the complexity of the underlying XML message protocol. This new
release supports different protocols such as SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, and
REST, and uses JAXB 2.0, also new to Java EE 5, for XML data binding.
When writing a JAX-WS 2.0 web service, the developer uses annotations
to define methods either in an interface or directly in an
implementation class (the interface can be automatically generated).
On the client side, the web service client simply creates a proxy object,
and then invokes methods on this proxy. Neither the server nor the
client needs to generate or parse SOAP (or REST) messages; the JAX-WS
2.0 API takes care of these tedious low-level tasks. Using a powerful
combination of Java 5 annotations and Ant-compatible tools to mask
the underlying complexity of the SOAP protocol, JAX-WS 2.0 greatly
simplifies the development of web services and of web-service-based
SOA architectures.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/13/web-services-with-jax-ws-2.0.html
See also the JAX-WS Project web site: https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/

----------------------------------------------------------------------