Its been 6 months since Apache released version 1.0 of its core Web services engine. Several changes have been made in this release offering a better user experience including improved documentation and support for POJO, Spring, JMS among many others.

Three WS-Commons projects of the Apache Web Services project, released new versions this week, which include Neethi 2.0, XMLSchema 1.2 and Axiom 1.2.

Version 1.0 alpha of the WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP was released recently providing a PHP extension for Web services. WSO2 WSF for PHP is based on Apache Axis2/C and supports the WS-* stack.