Spring Web Services 5.1.0 RC1 Release Notes

Spring Web Services 5.1.0-RC1 Release Notes

For changes in earlier milestones, please refer to:

• v5.1.0-M1

Upgrading from Spring Web Services 5.0

New and Noteworthy

Attaching a Policy Document to the Generated WSDL

DefaultWsdl11Definition can now attach a policy document, such as a WS-Policy or WS-SecurityPolicy fragment, to every binding it generates. Set the policy property to a Resource containing the policy XML, and it is added as-is to each wsdl:binding element in the generated WSDL:

<bean id="orders" class="org.springframework.ws.wsdl.wsdl11.DefaultWsdl11Definition">
    <property name="schema" ref="ordersSchema"/>
    <property name="portTypeName" value="Orders"/>
    <property name="locationUri" value="http://localhost:8080/orders"/>
    <property name="policy" value="policies/orders-policy.xml"/>
</bean>

This only exposes the policy in the WSDL contract, for example for interoperability with clients that expect security requirements to be declared alongside the binding; it does not enforce the policy against incoming or outgoing messages.

PolicyProvider, a new BindingsProvider in org.springframework.ws.wsdl.wsdl11.provider, is also available for use with ProviderBasedWsdl4jDefinition directly.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Web Services 5.1.0-RC1 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

• Micrometer 1.18.0-RC1

• Spring Framework 7.1.0-RC1

• Spring Security 7.2.0-RC1

Numerous third-party dependencies have also been updated, some of the more noteworthy of which are the following:

• Mockito 5.24.0

• Woodstox 7.3.0

• XMLUnit 2.14.0

Miscellaneous

Apart from the changes listed above, there have also been lots of minor tweaks and improvements including:

• Documentation for SAML support has been completed.

• The reference documentation has now a section on enabling MTOM with JAXB.

Deprecations in Spring Web Services 5.1.0-RC1