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XFire 1.1.1 has been released!

The Codehaus XFire team is proud to announce XFire 1.1.1! This is a bug fix release and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

XFire is an open source Java SOAP framework built on a high performance, streaming XML architecture. XFire includes support for web service standards, an easy to use API, Spring integration, JBI support, and plugable bindings for POJOs, JAXB, and XMLBeans.

Please read the release notes for download information and upgrade instructions.

XFire 1.1.1 incorporates several improvements since 1.1:

• MTOM interoperability fix
• New MTOM example
• WSDL->Code generator bug fixes
• Fix multithreaded Client issue
• Fix some minor Java 1.4 compatability issues.
• Spring 2.0 support for services.xml
• Many other bug fixes

The XFire team would like to thank all those who helped build and test this release!

This was a tough one to get out because of the new Codehaus infrastructure, but we finally got there. Thanks to all the users who reported bugs, helped test fixes, gave patches, and who waited patiently for 1.1.1.

Good adivce from Scoble for all my corporate PR & sales friends:

My friends have been asking me “why doesn’t Wall Street believe Steve Ballmer?”

That’s an easy one. Cause he didn’t convince the grass roots influence networks first. Why have Google and Apple done so well in the last three years? Cause the grassroots loves them. That’s the [power] of the industry. Ideas here don’t come from the big influencers and move down. No, they start on the street and move up. Anyone miss how Google got big? Not by throwing a press conference.

I believe there is a word for this… disintermediation. The great thing about making people in your organization available at conferences and on blogs, is that you’ve cut out the middle man. You’re getting the real deal from the real source. Thats why its so interesting to read Robert’s blog, or Jonathan Schwartz’s or any number of other people’s. Provided you have a compelling story, people will go on to talk about you.

This meshes really well with open source. It starts at the developers (the roots) and works its way up. You don’t even need a big marketing budget. If everyone on the street is using you, the press, analysts, big companies, etc will have to take notice. (Of course some of this is because the software is free as well, but I think the point still stands…)