You can still use SOAP, just add a JAR or two, as it should be. If you were using Java EE you were always using the Java EE classes and no the Java SE classes a

You can still use SOAP, just add a JAR or two, as it should be. If you were using Java EE you were always using the Java EE classes and no the Java SE classes anyway. I think it was mostly removed because Java EE required redefining some Java SE classes which is a bit of a pain with the new module system so they simply kicked it out of Java SE. I don't think that they'll remove XML support as other parts like XML properties and Swing XML serialization need it. Although in this new world they could simply remove that as well.