The Codehaus brings you the second alpha release of XFire. New in this release is a client generator, much better XMLBeans support, a faster Java binding, and lots of general API enhancements. Find releases on the download page.

XFire is a next generation StAX based SOAP framework. Features include:

• SOAP 1.1 (non-RPC) and 1.2 Support
• Fast StAX based stack
• Intuitive API
• SOAP and REST clients
• Generate XMLBeans Clients from a WSDL
• Java binding which exposes object models easily as services
• XMLBeans binding for server and client sides.
• Aegis binding which uses OGNL to allow your web service model and code model to vary independently
• Plexus support for sophisticated configuration and lifecycle management.