[ANN] XINS 1.4.0 released

After 5 months of development, tuning and testing, XINS 1.4.0 has been
released. XINS is an open-source Java-based RPC framework. It makes
server-side applications protocol-agnostic, meaning that you can use
XML-RPC, SOAP and other protocols at the same time.

One of the key features that differentiates XINS from other
technologies is the definition-driven approach. Write simple XML
definitions and XINS will generate lots for you:

* Documentation of the specifications and implementations
* Test forms, for testing your applications with a browser
* Client-side Java code, supporting load-balancing, fail-over and
time-out handling
* Web application (WAR file), compatible with servlet containers
* WSDL, for SOAP-interoperability
* Unit test code, based on JUnit
* Stubs, typically used for testing
* etc.

Another key feature is protocol independence. XINS supports several
communication protocols, including SOAP, XML-RPC and POX-RPC. For each
incoming request XINS automatically determines which protocol to use.
With XSLT the results can be transformed to HTML or other content
types. Custom protocols can be added by added a single Java class.

XINS 1.4 offers various new features over release 1.3, as well as some
bug fixes. The main new features are:

* Automatic communication protocol detection (XML-RPC, SOAP, etc.)
* Asynchronous requests (http://xins.sf.net/asynchronous.html)
* Generation of documentation in OpenDocument format, for use by
OpenOffice.org, for example.
* Support for including files (e.g. HTML) in the WAR file
* Extensive Pet Store demo

Additionally, both the compile-time performance and the runtime
performance of XINS have been tuned further.

XINS is used in production systems since the end of 2002. As a stable
release, XINS 1.4.0 is backwards compatible with all previous stable
releases. It has been tested extensively on various Java and OS
platforms, including Solaris, Linux and Windows.

Download XINS 1.4.0, either as a Windows installer or as a
platform-independent TAR GZ file:

* Windows installer: http://prdownloads.sf.net/xins/xins-1.4.0.exe?download
* TAR GZ archive: http://prdownloads.sf.net/xins/xins-1.4.0.tgz?download

More information is available here:

* XINS website: http://xins.sf.net/
* XINS 1.4.0 release notes: http://xins.sf.net/notes-1.4.0.html
* User guide: http://xins.sf.net/docs/
* XINS Primer: http://xins.sf.net/primer.html - A 15-minute
introduction tutorial
* Presentation Frameworks in general and XINS in particular:
http://xins.sf.net/presentation_200604_v4.pdf
* Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/XINS


Regards,


Ernst de Haan
XINS Developer


 
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