The Codehaus XFire team has announced their 1.0 release. 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 pluggable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans.

XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework and makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performer since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.

XFire 1.0 includes:
• Support for WSDL 1.1, SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, WS-Addressing, WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
• Pluggable bindings for POJOs, XMLBeans, JAXB 1.1, JAXB 2.0, and Castor support
• Support for many different transports - HTTP, JMS, XMPP, In-JVM, etc.
• Spring, Pico, Plexus, Loom, and Yan support
• JBI Support
• Embeddable and Intuitive API
• Client and server stub generation
• JSR 181 2.0 API to configure services via Java 5 and 1.4 (Commons attributes JSR 181 syntax)

XFire can be downloaded at http://xfire.codehaus.org/XFire+1.0+Release+Notes