Developer(s) | Oracle Corporation |
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Stable release |
2.3 / 29 Apr 2013
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Operating system | Cross-platform |
Available in | Java 6 or Higher |
Type | Web Services Framework |
License | CDDL version 1.0 and GPL v2 license |
Website | http://metro.java.net/ |
Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack and is a part of the GlassFish Application Server. Metro incorporates JAXB 2.x RI and JAX-WS 2.x Web services standards, along with other XML-related Java standards. Metro also includes added nonstandard components to support both basic JAX-WS service definition and usage and a variety of WS-* extensions to SOAP message exchange.
Metro augments the JAX-WS environment with advanced features such as trusted, end-to-end security; optimized transport (MTOM, Fast Infoset), reliable messaging, and transactional behavior for SOAP web services.
Metro includes JAXB RI, JAX-WS RI, SAAJ RI, SJSXP, and WSIT, along with libraries that those components depend on, such as xmlstreambuffer, mimepull, etc.
Supported WS-* Standards
Supported Transport protocols include: