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+<h1>WS tools 1.4.0.Beta1 What's New</h1>
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+<p align="right"><a href="../index.html">&lt; Main Index</a></p>
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+ <tr>
+    <td valign="top" align="right"><a name="itemname3"
+    id="itemname3"></a><b>JAX-RS Performance Improvements</b></td>
+    <td valign="top">      
+      <p>In continuation of the work done in previous version of the Web Services component, the JAX-RS plugin is now also faster at analysing a project structure when this one is imported in the workspace. 
+      </p>
+      <p><small><a href="https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12887">Related Jira</a></small>
+         <small><a href="https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12224">Related Jira</a></small></p>
+
+    </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+    <td valign="top" align="right"><a name="itemname3"
+    id="itemname3"></a><b>JAX-RS Validation improvements</b></td>
+    <td valign="top">
+      <p>Support for JAX-RS validation has been improved with a lot of bug fixes and a few improvements, such as providing a Quick Fixes for annotation values on custom HTTP Methods.
+        
+      </p> 
+      <p><small><a href="https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12593">Related Jira</a></small>
+         <small><a href="https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12804">Related Jira</a></small></p>
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