Both Spring Web Services versions bring a series of bug fixes and improvements beyond the common Java 11 support, such as: SaajSoapMessage created with default (empty) SoapEnvelope (SWS-1018) ...

The new WSF/Spring 1.0 integrates the Apache Axis2 /Java Web services engine into the Spring Framework, giving Spring users full control from within the Spring configuration model.

Java programmers who like the open source Spring Framework can develop applications for Web services using the newly released Spring Web Services 1.0 stack.

Spring Social lets developers connect Java applications to SaaS APIs from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, GitHub and others, and to interact with those services on behalf of their users.