The first beta of Stardust, the next-generation SOAP Web Services framework is available for free download at http://www.idoox.com/eap/wasp/index.html through Idoox's Early Access Program.

The first beta brings following features:

-SOAP 1.1, WSDL 1.1 and XML Schema 1999/2000/2001 standards support.
-New Web Services development tools for Sun Forte for Java/Netbeans.
-Automated JavaScript client access code generation.
-MIME Multipart/Related content sending and receiving.
-Remote interface references.
-Custom header processing.
-Custom serialization.
-Advanced exception handling.
-Dynamic proxy generation for client-side access.
-Pluggable transports.
-Flexible processing of SOAP messagess on various levels.
-Configurable classloading.
-HTTP 1.1 proxy support.
-Browser base administration console.

The final version is scheduled to be released at the end of August. It will extend the current beta with:

-Performance optimalization (500 messages/sec. on PIII 850Mhz)
-HTTP Servlet transport.
-Application, session and request object activation modes.

I trust you meant to state "is NOW ready" rather than "is NOT ready" :-)

Yup, on the first page it says:

"The first beta of Stardust, Idoox's next-generation Java SOAP stack is not available for free download."

Of course it is ready for free download.

Regards

Zdenek