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| <head><title>:: Axis2 Release Notes ::</title></head> | |
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| <h1>Axis2 Release Notes</h1> | |
| <h2>This is the Apache Axis2 0.95 release</h2> | |
| <h3>Complete Features List</h3> | |
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| <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, can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li> | |
| <li>Content hierarchy</li> | |
| <li>Archive based deployment model and Directory based deployment model</li> | |
| <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li> | |
| <li>WSDL Code Generation tool for stubs 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 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 starts when the application server starts up - <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li> | |
| <li>Module disengagemnt support - <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li> | |
| <li>Loading modules (.mar files) 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> | |
| <h4>Experimental | |
| Features List</h4> | |
| <ol type="1"> | |
| <li>Server side and client side Web service Policy support</li> | |
| <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li> | |
| <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client</li> | |
| </ol> | |
| <h3>Major Changes Since | |
| Last Release</h3> | |
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| <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)</li> | |
| <li>The way to add an action mapping (wsamapping) has been moved from being a parameter to a child element. With this version onwards the way of adding an action mapping is as follows:</li> | |
| <pre> | |
| <actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping> | |
| </pre> | |
| <li>Refactored following packages in Axiom: | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.builder to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.builder</li> | |
| <li>org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.mtom to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.mtom</li> | |
| <li>org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.serialize to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.serialize</li> | |
| <li>org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.traverse to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.traverse</li> | |
| </li> | |
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| <h3>Tools Included In This | |
| Release</h3> | |
| <ol type="1"> | |
| <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li> | |
| <li>WSDL2WS - Command line version</li> | |
| </ol> | |
| <h3>What's Still To | |
| Do?</h3> | |
| <p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if | |
| you're interested and able!</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> | |
| <p>Axis2 is taking shape, this 0.95 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that is coming soon. | |
| If you happen to have a vision of how the next generation Web services platform should be, contribute to | |
| Apache Axis2, and help us shape it. Any contribution in the form of coding, testing, submitting | |
| improvements to the documentation, and reporting bugs are always welcome.</p> | |
| <p>Thanks for your interest in Axis2!</p> | |
| <strong><em>-The Axis2 Development Team</em></strong> | |
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