Apache Commons Neethi: This is an implementation of WS-Policy Specification (March, 2006) which can be located at:http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/09/policy/ws-policy.pdf It provides a convenient model and an API to process policy information at runtime and an extension model for serailization and de-serialization of domain specific Assertions. This framework is heavily used in Apache Axis2, Apache Sandesha2, Apache WSS4J (as an experimental feature) and now gaining its maturity. Please visit : http://ws.apache.org/commons/neethi/ for further infomation.