Welcome to Apache Neethi
Apache Neethi™ provides general framework for the programmers to use WS Policy. It is compliant with latest WS Policy specification which was published in March 2006. This framework is specifically written to enable the Apache Web services stack to use WS Policy as a way of expressing it's requirements and capabilities.
Latest Release April 2026 - Apache Neethi Version 3.2.2 Released!
Note that this release fixes three CVEs, please see Security Advisories (CVEs).
Key Features
- Provides a convenient API for Policy processing
- Provides a mechanism to extend domain specific types as assertions
- Provides a mechanism to provide custom serialization / de-serialization of assertions
- More provision for the domain authors to determine the behavior of the assertions
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