Web Services Technologies

GlassFish has a rich set of Web Services Technologies. We believe our Web Services stack is the best in Java-based implementation in the industry: very functional and very high performance. Here is a feature list of the Web services stack in GlassFish v2 or Application Server 9.1:

• New, Highly Performant and Extensible JAX-WS 2.1 RI (Java API for XML Web Services)
  • Standards
    • W3C WS-Addressing 1.0 - Core, SOAP Binding, WSDL Binding (CR), WS-Addressing Member Submission
    • SOAP 1.1 and 1.2, WSDL 1.1
    • WS-I Basic Profile 1.0/1.1, Simple SOAP Binding Profile 1.0, Attachment Profile 1.0
    • REST and XML/HTTP
    • MTOM
  • Fast Infoset (FI) support. See Enabling Fast Infoset in Glassfish for more information on how to use FI with Glassfish.
  • Stateful Web services
  • Support for custom WebServiceFeature
  • Spring Framework support
  • Multiple pluggable transports - In-VM, Servlet, HTTP, JMS, SOAP/TCP
• Interoperability with Microsoft .NET 3.0 framework using Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT, aka Project Tango) by providing an implementation of key enterprise WS-* specs. The current set includes:
  • WS-Reliable Messaging
  • WS-Security
  • WS-Secure Conversation
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-Coordination
  • WS-Atomic Transaction
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-Metadata Exchange
• JAX-RPC (Java API for XML-based RPC)
• SAAJ (SOAP with Attachments API for Java)
• JAXR (Java API for XML Registries)
• First class support in NetBeans 5.5.1

See WS stack comparison and accompaning blog.

Note that JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 are bundled in Mustang.

This page (revision-27) was last changed on 11-Oct-07 13:08 PM, -0700 by Jamey Wood.
This page was created on 09-Oct-06 13:03 PM, -0700 by EduardoPelegriLlopart.

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