[ANN] XINS 1.5.0 released - Web Services framework supporting XML-RPC, SOAP, REST, etc.

XINS 1.5.0, an open source web services package, has been released.
While previous releases already were protocol-independent, this
release adds more flexibility by allowing all HTTP methods, so a
REST-based protocol could be developed. XML-RPC, SOAP and POX-RPC
(GET/POST parameters in, XML out) are already supported.

In XINS 1.5.0, JMX compliance has been added, so if the XINS servlet
is deployed in a JMX-supporting environment (such as WebLogic, Tomcat
or any modern servlet container), standard tools can be used to
monitor and manage the XINS application.

Integration with various tools has been added or extended, including:
- Eclipse
- NetBeans
- PMD
- FindBugs
- Java2HTML
- JMeter
- Ant (custom tasks)
etc.

A lot of other improvements were implemented, including improved
OpenDocument export and various bug fixes.

All of this fits in the mail goal of XINS:

    Provide a framework for web application development that excels in
simplicity and consistency.

XINS 1.5.0 can be downloaded as a Windows installer or as a
platform-independent .tar.gz file:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/xins/xins-1.5.0.exe?download
http://prdownloads.sf.net/xins/xins-1.5.0.tgz?download

If you have never tried XINS, give the Primer a try. It shows you what
XINS is about in less than 15 minutes:
http://xins.sourceforge.net/primer.html

For more information, see the XINS documentation page:
http://xins.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

Regards,


Ernst de Haan
XINS developer