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     Changelog for Axis 1.4.1
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Changes from 1.4 final

    * The Axis build has been migrated from Ant to Maven. This implies that the source distribution has
      a completely different structure.
    
    * A Maven plugin has been added. This plugin can be used as an alternative to the Axis Ant tasks.
    
    * A new stand-alone server has been added. It uses an embedded Jetty server and superseded the old
      SimpleAxisServer. The Maven plugin has goals to start/stop stand-alone server instances so that the new
      stand-alone server can be easily integrated into integration tests executed using Maven.
    
    * A new HTTP transport has been added. It can be used as an alternative to the default <<<HTTPSender>>>
      or the Commons HttpClient based transport (<<<CommonsHTTPSender>>>). It uses the
      <<<java.net.HttpURLConnection>>> API which supports HTTP 1.1 keep-alive connections. In contrast to
      <<<CommonsHTTPSender>>>, it doesn't impose any additional requirements on the application code
      (see the {{{http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis/AxisCommonsHTTP}AxisCommonsHTTP how-to}}) and can therefore be used
      as a drop-in replacement for <<<HTTPSender>>>. However, it requires Java 1.5
      because it relies on features of the <<<java.net.HttpURLConnection>>> API that were not available in
      earlier Java versions.
    
    * It is now possible to change the Java class associated with an XML type when generating a client stub.
      Note that this is only supported by the wsdl2java-maven-plugin, but not by the corresponding Ant task
      or command line tool. The feature can be used to consume MTOM enabled services. Check the
      {{{../maven/wsdl2java-maven-plugin/java-xml-type-mappings.html}plugin documentation}} for more information.
    
    * WSDL4J has been upgraded from 1.5.1 to 1.6.2.
    
    * Support for Java 1.3 has been dropped.
    
    * <<<AxisServlet>>> no longer attempts to register the Axis MBeans automatically. To enable them, add
      <<<axis-rt-management>>> as a dependency and register <<<org.apache.axis.management.servlet.AxisServerMBeanExporter>>>
      as a listener in <<<web.xml>>>.
    
    * The JWS support was updated to use the <<<javax.tools>>> API, which requires Java 6.