The first release of XFire is out (1.0-alpha-1). XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework with such features as:

• A STAX based core processing model.
• Several binding modules to communicate between your code and XML (traditional java module, OGNL/XML mapping, and XMLBeans).
• Intuitive, easy to use API.
• MIT open source license.

To find out more visit the XFire site or get your downloads here.