Spring Web Services is a product of the Spring community focused on creating document-driven Web services. Spring Web Services aims to facilitate contract-first SOAP service development, allowing for the creation of flexible web services using one of the many ways to manipulate XML payloads.

Releases of Spring Web Services are available for download from Maven Central, as well as our own repository, https://repo.springsource.org/release.

For Maven users:

<repository>
    <id>repository.spring.release</id>
    <name>Spring GA Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.spring.io/release</url>
</repository>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.4</version>
</dependency>

Nightly snapshots of Spring Web Services are available for download from our snapshot repository, https://repo.springsource.org/snapshot.

For Maven users:

<repository>
    <id>repository.spring.snapshot</id>
    <name>Spring Snapshot Repository</name>
    <url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
</repository>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.ws</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-ws-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.5.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Spring Web Services uses a Gradle-based build system. In the instructions below, ./gradlew is invoked from the root of the source tree and serves as a cross-platform, self-contained bootstrap mechanism for the build. The only prerequisites are Git and JDK 1.7+.

git clone git:https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ws.git

./gradlew build

./gradlew install

... and discover more commands with ./gradlew tasks. See also the Gradle build and release FAQ.

See the current Javadoc and reference docs.

Spring Scala uses JIRA for issue tracking purposes

Spring Web Services is Apache 2.0 licensed.