The XFire team is proud to announce the 1.0-RC1 release! XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework. XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.

This release features many improvements:

• Improved Client and Server stub generation
• Performance Improvements of up to 50%!
• JAX-WS Early Access Release
• Castor Support
• Maven 2 Support
• Many, many bug fixes

See the download page or the release notes for more information.