Spring Web Services

Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services. Spring Web Services aims to facilitate contract-first SOAP service development, allowing for the creation of flexible web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads.

Installation

Releases of Spring Web Services are available for download from Maven Central, as well as our own repository, http://repo.springsource.org/release.

For Maven users:

<repository>
    <id>repository.spring.release</id>
    <name>Spring GA Repository</name>
    <url>http://repo.spring.io/release</url>
</repository>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.4</version>
</dependency>

Snapshots

Nightly snapshots of Spring Web Services are available for download from our snapshot repository, http://repo.springsource.org/snapshot.

For Maven users:

<repository>
    <id>repository.spring.snapshot</id>
    <name>Spring Snapshot Repository</name>
    <url>http://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
</repository>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Building from Source

Spring Web Services uses a Gradle-based build system. In the instructions below, ./gradlew is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build. The only prerequisites are Git and JDK 1.7+.

check out sources

git clone git://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ws.git

compile and test, build all jars, distribution zips and docs

./gradlew build

install all spring-* jars into your local Maven cache

./gradlew install

… and discover more commands with ./gradlew tasks. See also the Gradle build and release FAQ.

Documentation

See the current Javadoc and reference docs.

Issue Tracking

Spring Web Services uses JIRA for issue tracking purposes

License

Spring Web Services is Apache 2.0 licensed.