Spring Web Services 2.2.0 introduces annotation support 
Spring Web Services 2.2.0 Released
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 2.2.0.RELEASE has been released! This is the first release in the 2.2 release cycle. The main new feature in 2.2 is the introduction of code configuration support for Spring-WS. This means that you can now configure Spring-WS with a simple @EnableWs annotation. For instance:
@Configuration
@EnableWs
@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = { MyConfiguration.class })
public class MyWsConfiguration {

  // @Beans go here
}

For more information about this topic, refer to the javadoc of @EnableWs. You can also read more about this new feature in the updated reference documentation. To view a complete list of changes see the changelog.