Metro is a high-performance, extensible, easy-to-use web service stack.
It is a one-stop shop for all your web service needs, from the simplest
hello world web service to reliable, secured, and transacted web service
that involves .NET services.
Metro consists of JAX-WS Reference Implementation project and
Web Services Interoperability Technology project.
JAX-WS Reference Implementation (JAX-WS RI) provides core web servicing
support and the base framework for extensions provided by the WSIT layer.
Web Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT) (previously known as
Project Tango) includes implementations of:
- SOAP over TCP
- WS-AtomicTransactions/Coordination
- WS-MetadataExchange
- WS-Policy (policy.dev.java.net)
- WS-ReliableMessaging
- WS-SecureConversation
- WS-Security
- WS-SecurityPolicy
- WS-Trust
Note:
- WS-Policy (policy.dev.java.net)
has its own codebase however WS-Policy related issues can be submitted into
the Metro (WSIT) Issue tracker