[ANN][WODEN] Apache Woden 1.0M9 released

[Sagara Gunathunga <sa...@gmail.com>]

The Apache Woden Team is pleased to announce the release of Woden 1.0M9 .
The source and binary distributions are available for download at:

http://ws.apache.org/woden/dev/1.0/builds.html

Main features of this release.

1.) Woden moved to use clean Maven based module structure and removed
unnecessary Maven dependencies according to modules and DOM/OM
implementation.

2.) Woden serialization  for component model implemented for both DOM and
OM.

3.) Woden tool module to convert WSDL 1.1 documents to WSDL 2.0 Documents ,
this tool also available as a Maven plug-in and a Ant Task.

4.) Private QName class was moved to a new module so that it doesn't make
conflicts with standard QName class.

5.) Woden no longer depends on Apache Xerces and possible to plug any JAXP
implementation .

6.) Replaced Woden's simple logging mechanism by Commons logging API.

7.) Equal methods for  component  model.

8.) Improved API for OM implementation.



-- The Apache Woden Team