XINS 2.0, an open-source Web services development framework, has been released. XINS accepts the following protocols: REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, XML, Yahoo! JSON and JSON-RPC. From the specification of the API written in simple XML, XINS generates:
  • Documentation of the specifications and implementations in HTML and in OpenDocument format
  • Test forms, for testing your applications with a browser
  • Client-side Java code, supporting load-balancing, fail-over and time-out handling
  • Server-side Java skeleton
  • Web application (WAR file), compatible with servlet containers
  • WSDL, for SOAP-interoperability
  • SMD, for the Dojo toolkit
  • Unit test code, based on JUnit
  • Stubs, typically used for testing
The 2.0 release adds the following features:
  • New protocols: Yahoo! JSON (with callbacks) and JSON-RPC (1.0 and 1.1)
  • Import of WSDL and XML Schema.
  • _WSDL and _SMD meta functions
  • Better integration with the Spring Framework, the Dojo toolkit and GWT
  • Examples with REST implementation, implementation in Groovy and with Dojo toolkit
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