Comments on: What happened to JAX-WS 2.1 & JAX-B 2.1?

By: Kohsuke

Kohsuke — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:02:40 +0000

In JCP terminology, “JAXB 2.1″ corresponds to the maintenance release 1 of JSR-222. So the “maintenance release” that started on Dec 14th 2006 is the JAXB 2.1 release.

JCP website is full of JCP jargons like this, so there’s little wonder people get confused about this. I’d like to think JAXB java.net page does a better job of using terms that people understand.

Hope this clears your confusion.

By: aehso

aehso — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:37:01 +0000

The JCP’s JAXB homepage (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222) still contains no reference to JAXB 2.1. I appreciate that the JAXB R.I. project page (https://jaxb.dev.java.net/) does but that isn’t the ‘home’ of the spec.

That said, I was indeed referencing JAXB incorrectly in my post, I have updated to correct.

By: Kohsuke

Kohsuke — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:24:09 +0000

Nothing happened to JAXB 2.1. The spec and the RI are available as usual, and it has never referenced W3C WSDL Binding to begin with.

I think you are mixing up JAXB and JAX-WS.