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<h1>Apache Axis2 Archived News</h1>
<p>This document contains details of each Axis2 version that was
released, up to the current version.</p>
<h2>Content</h2>
<h3>Apache Axis2 Releases:</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="#1.2">27th April 2007 - Version 1.2</a></li>
<li><a href="#1_1_1">09th January 2007- Version 1.1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#1_1">13th November 2006- Version 1.1</a></li>
<li><a href="#1_0">04 May 2006- Version 1.0</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_95">23 March 2006- Version 0.95</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_94">11 January 2006- Version 0.94</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_93">02 December 2005 - Version 0.93</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_92">26 September 2005 - Version 0.92</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_91">12 August 2005 - Version 0.91</a></li>
<li><a href="#0_90">02 July 2005 - Version 0.9</a></li>
<li><a href="#M2">07 June 2005 - Milestone 2</a></li>
<li><a href="#M1">24 February 2005 - Milestone 1</a></li>
</ul>
<a id="1.2" name="1.2"></a>
<h2>27th April 2007 - Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.2 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download/1_2/download.cgi">Download
1.2</a>]</p>
<h3>Programming Model</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy
support</li>
<li>Support for POJO and Spring services and clients</li>
<li>Support for any message exchange pattern</li>
<li>Synchronous and asynchronous calls</li>
<li>Archived service deployment model supporting full service
encapsulation with versioning support</li>
<li>Archived module deployment model supporting controlled
extensibility with versioning support</li>
<li><a href="#Hot_Deployment">Hot deployment</a></li>
<li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
<li>Flexible service life cycle model</li>
<li>Automatic support for POX (REST) style invocation of
services</li>
<li>Support for querying a service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema
(using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)</li>
<li>WSDL 2.0</li>
<li>POJO annotation (<a href=
"http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=181">JSR 181</a>)</li>
<li>JAX-WS intregration</li>
<li>Custom Deployers</li>
<li>Binary serialization (Fast Infoset)</li>
<li>JSON support</li>
<li>EJB Provider support</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Specifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>SOAP 1.1 and 1.2</li>
<li>Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML
Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments</li>
<li>WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings</li>
<li>WS-Addressing (submission and final)</li>
<li>WS-Policy</li>
<li>SAAJ 1.1</li>
</ul>
<h3>Transports</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTTP</li>
<li>SMTP</li>
<li>JMS</li>
<li>TCP</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Data Bindings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB)</li>
<li>XMLBeans</li>
<li>JibX</li>
<li>JaxMe (Experimental)</li>
<li>JaxBRI (Experimental)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tools Included in this Release</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html">Download
Tool Plug-ins</a>]</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- <a href=
"tools/1_2/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a href=
"tools/1_2/CodegenToolReference.html">Command line
version</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/1_2/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation">IntelliJ
IDEA plug-in</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/1_2/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html">Maven2
WSDL2Code Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- <a href=
"tools/1_2/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/1_2/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive">
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/1_2/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html">Maven2 AAR
Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Java2WSDL- <a href=
"tools/1_2/maven-plugins/maven-java2wsdl-plugin.html">Maven2
Java2WSDL Plug-in</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Extension Modules</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon
WS-Policy)</li>
<li>Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging</li>
</ul>
(Apache Axis2 comes built-in with a module that supports
WS-Addressing.)
<h2>Known Issues and Limitations</h2>
<ul>
<li>Xml-beans databinding does not support response unwrapping</li>
<li>ADB databinding does not support minOccurs and maxOccurs
attributes in sequence and choice elements (i.e.,
<code>&lt;sequence minOccurs="0"
maxOccurs="unbounded"&gt;&lt;/sequence&gt;</code>)</li>
<li>Unable to produce original WSDL in the case of WSDL 2.0,
therefore the AxisService is serialized to produce ?wsdl2.</li>
</ul>
<a id="1_1_1" name="1_1_1"></a>
<h2>09th January 2007- Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.1.1
Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download/1_1_1/download.cgi">Download
1.1.1</a>]</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 Version 1.1.1 comes with performance improvements
and bug fixes over the 1.1 release. Check out the complete list of
features below.</p>
<h3>Programming Model</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy
support</li>
<li>Support for any message exchange pattern</li>
<li>Synchronous and asynchronous calls</li>
<li>Archived service deployment model</li>
<li>Archived module deployment model supporting controlled
extensibility with versioning support</li>
<li><a href="#Hot_Deployment">Hot deployment</a></li>
<li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
<li>Flexible service life cycle model</li>
<li>Support for querying a service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema
(using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Specifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>SOAP 1.1 and 1.2</li>
<li>Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML
Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments</li>
<li>WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings</li>
<li>WS-Addressing (submission and final)</li>
<li>WS-Policy</li>
<li>SAAJ 1.1</li>
</ul>
<h3>Transports</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTTP</li>
<li>SMTP</li>
<li>JMS</li>
<li>TCP</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Data Bindings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB)</li>
<li>XMLBeans</li>
<li>JibX</li>
<li>JaxMe</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tools Included in This Release</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html">Download
Tool Plug-ins</a>]</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/CodegenToolReference.html">Command line
version</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation">IntelliJ
IDEA plug-in</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html">Maven2
WSDL2Code Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive">
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html">Maven2
AAR Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Java2WSDL- <a href=
"tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-java2wsdl-plugin.html">
Maven2 Java2WSDL Plug-in</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Extension Modules</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon
WS-Policy)</li>
<li>Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging</li>
</ul>
(Apache Axis2 comes built in with a module that supports
WS-Addressing.)
<h2>Known Issues and Limitations</h2>
<ul>
<li>ADB does not support unwrapping of response messages(coming in
1.2)</li>
<li>JSR 181/183 Annotation support (coming in 1.2)</li>
<li>JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental</li>
<li>Simple Axis Server does not support POX/REST</li>
<li>RPC Message Receiver does not validate a request against the
schema (AXIS2-1943)</li>
<li>Axis2 Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is
used</li>
</ul>
<a id="1_1" name="1_1"></a>
<h2>13th November 2006 - Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.1
Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download/1_1/download.cgi">Download
1.1</a>]</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 Version 1.1 comes with better Axis2 Databinding
Framework (ADB) support, <a href=
"http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments">attachments API</a>,
Spring, and complete support for SOAP with Attachments (SwA). Check
out the complete list of features below.</p>
<h3>Programming Model</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy
support</li>
<li>Support for any message exchange pattern</li>
<li>Synchronous and asynchronous calls</li>
<li>Archived service deployment model</li>
<li>Archived module deployment model, supporting controlled
extensibility with versioning support</li>
<li><a href="#Hot_Deployment">Hot deployment</a></li>
<li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
<li>Flexible service life cycle model</li>
<li>Support for the querying service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema
(using ?xsd), and policies (using ?policy)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Specifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>SOAP 1.1 and 1.2</li>
<li>Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML
Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments</li>
<li>WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings</li>
<li>WS-Addressing (submission and final)</li>
<li>WS-Policy</li>
<li>SAAJ 1.1</li>
</ul>
<h3>Transports</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTTP</li>
<li>SMTP</li>
<li>JMS</li>
<li>TCP</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Data Bindings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB)</li>
<li>XMLBeans</li>
<li>JibX</li>
<li>JaxMe</li>
</ul>
<h2>Tools Included in This Release</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html">Download
Tool Plug-ins</a>]</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- <a href=
"tools/1_1/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a href=
"tools/1_1/CodegenToolReference.html">Command line
version</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/1_1/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation">IntelliJ
IDEA plug-in</a><a>/</a><a href=
"tools/1_1/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html">Maven2
WSDL2Code Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- <a href=
"tools/1_1/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/1_1/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive">
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"tools/1_1/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html">Maven2 AAR
Plug-in</a></li>
<li>Java2WSDL- <a href=
"tools/1_1/maven-plugins/maven-java2wsdl-plugin.html">Maven2
Java2WSDL Plug-in</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Extension Modules</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon
WS-Policy)</li>
<li>Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging</li>
</ul>
(Apache Axis2 comes built in with a module that supports
WS-Addressing.)
<h2>Known Issues and Limitations</h2>
<ul>
<li>JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental</li>
<li>AXIS2-595: Hot re-deployment in Apache Tomcat has problems</li>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB) does not support the following
constructs:
<ol>
<li>AXIS2-983: Support for Simple Type Union and Simple Type
List</li>
<li>AXIS2-1092: Support for xs:list inside an xs:simpleType</li>
<li>AXIS2-1093: Support for xs:union inside xs:simpleType</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>No support yet for unwrapping of doc/lit WSDL files (in stub
generation)</li>
<li>No support yet for rpc/encoded style WSDL documents (in stub
generation)</li>
<li>Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is used</li>
</ul>
<a id="1_0" name="1_0"></a>
<h2>04 May 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 1.0 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
1.0</a>]</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely
used Apache Axis SOAP stack, built on the lessons learnt from
Apache Axis.</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it
also has integrated support for the widely popular REST style of
Web services. The same business logic implementation can offer both
a WS-* style interface as well as a REST style interface
simultaneously.</p>
<p>Apache Axis2 is more efficient, more modular and more
XML-oriented than the older version. It is designed to support the
easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend their functionality
for features such as security and reliability. The modules
currently available or under development include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href=
"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm">WS-ReliableMessaging</a>
- Supported by <a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/sandesha2/">Apache
Sandesha2</a></li>
<li><a href=
"http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/#coor">
WS-Coordination</a> and <a href=
"http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/#atom">
WS-AtomicTransaction</a> - Supported by <a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/kandula/">Apache Kandula2</a></li>
<li><a href=
"http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss">WS-Security</a>
- Supported by <a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Apache
Rampart</a></li>
<li><a href=
"http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/">WS-Addressing</a> -
<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Module</a>
included as part of Axis2 core</li>
</ul>
<p>Apache Axis2 is built on <a href=
"http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/index.html">Apache Axiom</a>, a
new high performant, pull-based XML object model that was released
on 02 May 2006.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<h3>Programming Model</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy
support</li>
<li>Support for any message exchange pattern</li>
<li>Synchronous and asynchronous calls</li>
<li>Archived service deployment model</li>
<li>Archived module deployment model supporting controlled
extensibility with versioning support</li>
<li><a href="1_1/installationguide.html#hot_deployment">Hot
deployment</a></li>
<li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
<li>Flexible service lifecyle model</li>
<li>Support for querying a service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema
(using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Specifications</h3>
<ul>
<li>SOAP 1.1 and 1.2</li>
<li>Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML
Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments</li>
<li>WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings</li>
<li>WS-Addressing (submission and final)</li>
<li>WS-Policy</li>
<li>SAAJ 1.1</li>
</ul>
<h3>Transports</h3>
<ul>
<li>HTTP</li>
<li>SMTP</li>
<li>JMS</li>
<li>TCP</li>
</ul>
<h3>Supported Data Bindings</h3>
<ul>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB)</li>
<li>XMLBeans</li>
<li>JibX</li>
<li>JaxMe</li>
</ul>
<h2><a>Tools Included in This Release</a></h2>
<p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html">[Download
plug-ins]</a></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- <a href=
"../tools/1_0/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a href=
"../tools/1_0/CodegenToolReference.html">Command line
version</a><a>/</a><a href=
"../tools/1_0/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation">IntelliJ
IDEA plug-in</a></li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- <a href=
"../tools/1_0/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html">eclipse
plug-in</a>/ <a href=
"../tools/1_0/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive">
IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a></li>
</ol>
<h2>Extension Modules</h2>
<ul>
<li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon
WS-Policy)</li>
<li>Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging</li>
</ul>
(Apache Axis2 comes with a built in module that supports
WS-Addressing.)
<h2>Known Issues and Limitations</h2>
<ul>
<li>Recursive schemas (A includes B which includes A) may cause
problems</li>
<li>JaxMe data binding support is experimental</li>
<li>Axis2-595: Hot re-deployment in Apache Tomcat has problems</li>
<li>Axis2-666: AddressingSubmissionInHandler does not deserialize
EPR extensibility attributes and elements</li>
<li>AXIS2-667: Operation dispatch based on message body has a known
issue</li>
<li>Axis Data Binding (ADB) does not cover all of the XML Schema;
its an 80-20 design point. Unsupported XML Schema features include:
<ol>
<li>Simple content extension and restriction</li>
<li>Complex content restriction</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>ADB does not support xsi:type based deserialization at
runtime</li>
<li>No support yet for unwrapping of doc/lit WSDL files (in stub
generation)</li>
<li>No support yet for rpc/encoded style WSDL documents (in stub
generation)</li>
</ul>
<a id="0_95" name="0_95"></a>
<h2>23 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.95 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.95</a>]</p>
<p>This release includes the following features:</p>
<h3 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Axis2
Complete List of Features</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>AXIOM, an XML object model working on StAX (Streaming API for
XML) parsing optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete
XML infoset support.</li>
<li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response
Messaging (In-Out)</li>
<li>Module Architecture, a mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing
Model</li>
<li>Module version support; you can have multiple versions of the
same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
<li>Context hierarchy</li>
<li>Archive based deployment model and Directory based deployment
model</li>
<li>JWS-like deployment (making a Java class into a Web
service)</li>
<li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
<li>WS-Addressing, both in the submission (2004/08) and final
(2005/08) versions</li>
<li>WSS4J module for security</li>
<li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
<li>WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL</li>
<li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
<li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
<li>Raw XML providers</li>
<li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
<li>SAAJ implementation</li>
<li>DOOM</li>
<li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code</li>
<li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
<li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
<li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)-<span style=
"color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>AxisServlet auto start when the application server starts
up-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>Module disengagement support-<span style=
"color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>Loading module (.mar) from classpath-<span style=
"color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request
levels-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
</ol>
<p id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad">
<strong><em>Axis2 List of Experimental Features</em></strong></p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Server side and client side Web Service Policy support</li>
<li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
<li>Generate ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the
corresponding service using the generated client.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major
Changes Since Last Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)
<pre>
   &lt;actionMapping&gt;MyMapping&lt;/actionMapping&gt;
   
</pre></li>
<li>Changed the way you add action to mapping (wsamapping) from a
parameter to a child element. Therefore, from this version onward,
adding mapping is as follows:</li>
<li>Refactored the following packages in Axiom.
<ul>
<li>org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.builder to
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder</li>
<li>org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.mtom to
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.mtom</li>
<li>org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.serialize to
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.serialize</li>
<li>org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.traverse to
org.apache.axiom.om.impl.traverse</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools
Included in This Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- Command line version</li>
<!--<li>Service Archive Wizard- eclipse Plugin</li>--></ol>
<h3 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What Still
Needs to be Done</h3>
<p>The list of what we think needs to be done. Even you can
consider helping out if you are interested.</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
<li>SOAP Encoding</li>
<li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
<li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
<li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
<li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web
services such as JSR 109 support</li>
<li>Completion of Interop tests</li>
</ol>
<a id="0_94" name="0_94"></a>
<h2>11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.94</a>]</p>
<p>This release includes the following features:</p>
<h3 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">The Complete
List of Features</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>AXIOM, an XML object model working on StAX (Streaming API for
XML) parsing optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 Messages. This has complete
XML infoset support.</li>
<li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response
Messaging (In-Out)</li>
<li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing
Model</li>
<li>Module version support; you can have multiple versions of the
same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
<li>Context hierarchy</li>
<li>Archive based deployment Model, and Directory based deployment
model</li>
<li>JWS-like deployment (making a Java class into a Web
service)</li>
<li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
<li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final
(2005/08) versions</li>
<li>WSS4J module for security</li>
<li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
<li>WSDL2Java</li>
<li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
<li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
<li>Raw XML providers</li>
<li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
<li>SAAJ implementation</li>
<li>DOOM - <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code - <span style=
"color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
<li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
<li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
</ol>
<h4 id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad">Axis2 List
of Experimental Features</h4>
<ol type="1">
<li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request
levels</li>
<li>Server side Web Service Policy support</li>
<li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
<li>Java2WSDL</li>
<li>Generate ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the
corresponding service using the generated client.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major
Changes Since the Last Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>Fixing of memory leaks.</li>
<li>Client API changes. Introducing ServiceClient instead of
MEPClient, InOnlyMEPClient, InOutMEPClient, Call. (Please note that
the above classes will be deprecated in this release.)</li>
<li>Module versioning support. You can have multiple versions of
the same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
<li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDLs</li>
<li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated
classes</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools
Included in this Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
<li>WSDL2WS- Eclipse plugin/ Command line version/ IntelliJ IDEA
plugin</li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plugin/ IntelliJ IDEA
plugin</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What Still
Needs to be Done</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
<li>SOAP Encoding</li>
<li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
<li>Management interface for Axis2</li>
<li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
<li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web
services such as JSR 109 support</li>
<li>Completion of interop tests</li>
</ol>
<a id="0_93" name="0_93"></a>
<h2>02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.93</a>]</p>
<p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. This 0.93 release
contains the following additional features:</p>
<ul>
<li>JDK 1.5 compatibility</li>
<li>Configurable handler chains using axis2.xml</li>
<li>Improved class loader hierarchy</li>
<li>Improved security module with dynamic configurability</li>
<li>ADB (Axis Data Binding) with complete simple type support and
limited complex type support</li>
<li>Jalopy based code formatting of generated code</li>
<li>Proxy support and NTLM authentication</li>
<li>Support for rpc/literal</li>
<li>And numerous bug fixes after 0.92 release</li>
</ul>
<h3>List of Experimental Features</h3>
<ol type="1">
<li>DOOM - DOM implementation over OM</li>
<li>Java2WSDL</li>
<li>RPC Support</li>
</ol>
<h3>Major Changes Since the Last Release</h3>
<ol>
<li>Refactored org.apache.axis2.clientapi to
org.apache.axis2.client</li>
<li>Introduction of Options to configure clients</li>
<li>Renaming of descriptors. OperationDescription -&gt;
AxisOperation, ServiceDescription -&gt; AxisService,
ServiceGroupDescription -&gt; AxisServiceGroup</li>
</ol>
We are getting closer to a 1.0 release, and the remaining tasks to
be completed before the 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
validation, our own data binding implementation, and WSDL
generation. <a id="0_92" name="0_92"></a>
<h2>26 September 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.92 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.92</a>]</p>
<p>This 0.92 release contains the following additional
features:</p>
<ul>
<li>WS-Security support using WSS4J</li>
<li>Support for context hierarchy serialization</li>
<li>Service Groups</li>
<li>Numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release</li>
</ul>
<h3>The Release Includes the Following Tools</h3>
<ul>
<li>Admin Web App</li>
<li>WSDL2Java, eclipse Plugin/Command line version</li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin</li>
<li>Module Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin</li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>We are getting closer to a 1.0 release, and the remaining tasks
to be completed before a 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
validation, our own data binding implementation, and WSDL
generation.</p>
<a id="0_91" name="0_91"></a>
<h2>12 August 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.91 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.91</a>]</p>
<p>This 0.91 release is a glimpse of the 1.0 that should be coming
soon. This 0.91 release contains the following additional
features:</p>
<ul>
<li>File Caching for MTOM</li>
<li>SOAP faults based on the SOAP version and better fault
handling</li>
<li>Different character encoding support</li>
<li>Improved infoset support in AXIOM</li>
<li>Improved code generation templates</li>
<li>Numerous bug fixes</li>
</ul>
<a id="0_90" name="0_90"></a>
<h2>02 July 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.9 Released!</h2>
<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
0.9</a>]</p>
<p>Axis2 is taking shape. This 0.9 release is a glimpse of the 1.0
that should be coming soon. This 0.9 release contains the following
additional features:</p>
<ul>
<li>XML Beans based data binding support</li>
<li>Support for WS-Addressing, both the submission and final
versions</li>
<li>REST Web Service Support</li>
<li>MTOM/SWA attachments support</li>
<li>SAAJ implementation</li>
</ul>
<a id="M2" name="M2"></a>
<h2>07 June 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 2 (M2) Released</h2>
<p>Apache Axis2 is starting to take shape. Features implemented in
this second milestone release are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Modules - a mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
<li>Support for WS-Addressing</li>
<li>Axis2 Client API - Blocking and Non-Blocking API</li>
<li>Support for One-Way Messaging and Request Response
Messaging</li>
<li>WSDL Code Generation Tool.</li>
<li>HTTP, SMTP, and TCP transport support</li>
</ul>
<b>This release also includes the following tools:</b>
<ul>
<li>Administration web application,</li>
<li>WSDL2WS-Eclipse plug-in</li>
<li>Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plug-in</li>
<li>Module Archive Wizard-Eclipse plug-in</li>
</ul>
<a id="M1" name="M1"></a>
<h2>24 February 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 1 (M1) Released</h2>
<p>This first milestone release of Axis2 includes the following
features:</p>
<ul>
<li>AXIOM, a SOAP specific streaming XML infoset model for SOAP
1.1/1.2 Messages</li>
<li>WSDL Object Model built based on the proposed WSDL 2.0
Component Model.</li>
<li>Handler framework with the support to specify the location of
the Handler in a specific Phase</li>
<li>Support to bundle and enable the Handlers as Modules</li>
<li>Support for the Synchronous and Asynchronous IN-OUT messaging
over HTTP transport</li>
<li>Hot deployment of Web Services</li>
</ul>
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