The Codehaus XFire team is proud to announce XFire 1.2-RC! XFire is an open source Java SOAP framework built on a high performance, streaming XML model. XFire includes support for web service standards, an easy to use API, Spring integration, JBI support, and plugable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans.

Please see the release notes for download information and upgrade instructions:

XFire 1.2-RC incorporates several new features and improvements since 1.1:

• Aegis binding inheritance support
• HTTP GZIP Support
• WSDL2Java now auto generates services.xml
• Option to disable server stub generation

Many thanks to those who helped build and test this release!