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 <h2>Welcome to Apache Axis2</h2>

 <p>Apache Axis2 is an implementation of the <a
 href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
 Recommendation</a> from the <a href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a>.  Axis2 can
 be used to provide and consume Web Services.</p>

 <p>From the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">W3C recommendation</a>:</p>

 <div style="padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 5px; font-style:italic;">
 "SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a
 decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that
 consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing
 what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for
 expressing instances of application-defined data types, and a convention for
 representing remote procedure calls and responses."</div>

 <p>Apache Axis2 is an effort to re-implement both Axis/Java and Axis/C++ on a
 new architecture. Building upon the "handler chain" model developed in Axis1,
 Axis2 introduces a more flexible pipeline architecture which leads itself to
 greater modularity and extensibility. This extensibility will allow Axis2 to
 act as a foundation for a growing constellation of associated Web Services
 protocols including:</p>
 <ul>
   <li><a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm" target="_blank">WS-ReliableMessaging</a></li>
   <li><a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss" target="_blank">WS-Security</a></li>
   <li><a
   href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/" target="_blank">WS-Addressing</a></li>
 </ul>

 <h2>Latest Release</h2>

 <h3>23 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.95 Released! (<a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.95</a>)</h3>

 <p>This release includes the following features:</p>

 <h4 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Axis2 Complete
 Features List</h4>

 <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 , 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 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 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 application server get start up-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
  <li>Module dis-engagemnt 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 Experimental
 Features List</strong></em></p>

 <ol type="1">
  <li>Server side & 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>

 <h4 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since
 Last Release</h4>

 <ol type="1">
    <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)</li>
    <li>Changed the way of adding action to mapping (wsamapping) from parameter to child element so with this version onward the way of adding mapping is as follows:</li>
    <pre>

    &lt;actionMapping&gt;MyMapping&lt;/actionMapping&gt;
    </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>
      </ul>
 </ol>

 <h4 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This
 Release</h4>
 <ol type="1">
  <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
  <li>WSDL2WS- Command line version</li>
  <li>Service Archive Wizard- eclipse Plugin</li>
 </ol>

 <h4 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What's Still To
 Do?</h4>

 <p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if
 you're interested &amp; 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>

 <h2>Axis2 Background and Motivation</h2>

 <p>Axis1 was built under the assumption that other protocols such as
 WS-ReliableMessaging would be integrated into Axis1's handler chain.  Axis1
 had the concept of a <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/apiDocs/org/apache/axis/MessageContext.html">MessageContext</a>
 and a chain of transport, service, and global message handlers, but Axis1
 lacked a clear extension architecture to enable clean composition of such
 layers. One of the key motivations for Axis2 is to provide a clean and simple
 environment for implementations of associated WS standards such as <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/">Apache Sandesha</a> and <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/">Apache WSS4J</a>. Implementations of
 associated standards should be able to easily interface with the base SOAP
 Message handling system. In summary, Axis2 has a more modular and flexible
 message handling pipeline. It focuses on the details of message handling and
 provides clear hooks for implementations of associated Web Services standards
 and protocols. This evolution will allow Axis to be a foundational technology
 for next generation Web Services.</p>

 <p>Axis2 introduces a representation for SOAP messages called <b>AXIOM (AXIs
 Object Model)</b>. AXIOM consists of two parts: a complete XML Infoset
 representation and a SOAP Infoset representation. The XML Infoset
 representation provides a JDOM-esque API built on top a deferred model via a
 StAX-based (Streaming API for XML) pull parsing API. A key feature of AXIOM
 is that it allows one to stop building the XML tree and just access the pull
 stream directly, enabling both maximum flexibility and maximum performance.
 This approach allows Axis2 to support multiple levels of abstraction for
 consuming and offering Web services using plain AXIOM, or using generated
 code and statically data-bound data types and so on. Developers with
 demanding performance requirements will be able to use AXIOM to create highly
 scalable Web Services.</p>

 <p>A third shift in Axis 2 is the de-emphasis of RPC-oriented Web Services
 and a shift towards more document-oriented message style asynchronous service
 interactions. With Axis2 clients can interact with servers in a number of
 ways, and the client API provides both a blocking and non-blocking API. At
 the time of Axis1's design, RPC-style, synchronous, request-response
 interactions were the order of the day for Web services. Today service
 interactions are much more message-oriented and exploit many different
 message exchange patterns. The Axis2 engine architecture is careful not to
 build in any assumptions of request-response patterns to ensure that it can
 be used easily to support arbitrary message exchange patterns. Don't worry,
 you'll still be able to use Axis2 like you used Axis1. One just have a richer
 set of options for client-server interaction.</p>

 <h2>Archived News</h2>
 <h3>11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released! (<a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.94</a>)</h3>

 <p>This release includes the following features:</p>

 <h4 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Complete
 Features List</h4>
 <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 , 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 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>

 <p id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad"><b>Axis2 Experimental
 Features List</b></p>
 <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>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding
     service using generated client.</li>
 </ol>

 <h4 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since
 Last Release</h4>
 <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 , can have multiple versions of the same
     module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
   <li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly</li>
   <li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes</li>
 </ol>

 <h4 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This
 Release</h4>
 <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>

 <h4 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What's Still To
 Do?</h4>
 <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>


 <h3>02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released! ( <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.93</a>)</h3>

 <p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download it!. </a>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 types 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>
 <p><b>Experimental features list</b></p>
 <ol type="1">
   <li>DOOM - DOM implementation over OM</li>
   <li>Java2WSDL</li>
   <li>RPC Support</li>
 </ol>
 <h4>Major changes since last release</h4>
 <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, the remaining tasks to be completed
 before a 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation, Our own data
 binding implementation, WSDL Generation.

 <h3 align="right"><a href="archived_news.html" target="_blank">See more Archived News >></a></h3>
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	<h2>Welcome to Apache Axis2</h2>

	<p>Apache Axis2 is an implementation of the <a
	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
	Recommendation</a> from the <a href="http://www.w3.org">W3C</a>. Axis2 can
	be used to provide and consume Web Services.</p>

	<p>From the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">W3C recommendation</a>:</p>

	<div style="padding-left: 20px; padding-top: 5px; font-style:italic;">
	"SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a
	decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that
	consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing
	what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for
	expressing instances of application-defined data types, and a convention for
	representing remote procedure calls and responses."</div>

	<p>Apache Axis2 is an effort to re-implement both Axis/Java and Axis/C++ on a
	new architecture. Building upon the "handler chain" model developed in Axis1,
	Axis2 introduces a more flexible pipeline architecture which leads itself to
	greater modularity and extensibility. This extensibility will allow Axis2 to
	act as a foundation for a growing constellation of associated Web Services
	protocols including:</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm" target="_blank">WS-ReliableMessaging</a></li>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss" target="_blank">WS-Security</a></li>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/" target="_blank">WS-Addressing</a></li>
	</ul>

	<h2>Latest Release</h2>

	<h3>23 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.95 Released! (<a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.95</a>)</h3>

	<p>This release includes the following features:</p>

	<h4 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Axis2 Complete
	Features List</h4>

	<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 , 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 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 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 application server get start up-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
	<li>Module dis-engagemnt 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 Experimental
	Features List</strong></em></p>

	<ol type="1">
	<li>Server side & 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>

	<h4 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since
	Last Release</h4>

	<ol type="1">
	<li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)</li>
	<li>Changed the way of adding action to mapping (wsamapping) from parameter to child element so with this version onward the way of adding 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>
	</ul>
	</ol>

	<h4 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This
	Release</h4>
	<ol type="1">
	<li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
	<li>WSDL2WS- Command line version</li>
	<li>Service Archive Wizard- eclipse Plugin</li>
	</ol>

	<h4 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What's Still To
	Do?</h4>

	<p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if
	you're interested & 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>

	<h2>Axis2 Background and Motivation</h2>

	<p>Axis1 was built under the assumption that other protocols such as
	WS-ReliableMessaging would be integrated into Axis1's handler chain. Axis1
	had the concept of a <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/apiDocs/org/apache/axis/MessageContext.html">MessageContext</a>
	and a chain of transport, service, and global message handlers, but Axis1
	lacked a clear extension architecture to enable clean composition of such
	layers. One of the key motivations for Axis2 is to provide a clean and simple
	environment for implementations of associated WS standards such as <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/">Apache Sandesha</a> and <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/">Apache WSS4J</a>. Implementations of
	associated standards should be able to easily interface with the base SOAP
	Message handling system. In summary, Axis2 has a more modular and flexible
	message handling pipeline. It focuses on the details of message handling and
	provides clear hooks for implementations of associated Web Services standards
	and protocols. This evolution will allow Axis to be a foundational technology
	for next generation Web Services.</p>

	<p>Axis2 introduces a representation for SOAP messages called <b>AXIOM (AXIs
	Object Model)</b>. AXIOM consists of two parts: a complete XML Infoset
	representation and a SOAP Infoset representation. The XML Infoset
	representation provides a JDOM-esque API built on top a deferred model via a
	StAX-based (Streaming API for XML) pull parsing API. A key feature of AXIOM
	is that it allows one to stop building the XML tree and just access the pull
	stream directly, enabling both maximum flexibility and maximum performance.
	This approach allows Axis2 to support multiple levels of abstraction for
	consuming and offering Web services using plain AXIOM, or using generated
	code and statically data-bound data types and so on. Developers with
	demanding performance requirements will be able to use AXIOM to create highly
	scalable Web Services.</p>

	<p>A third shift in Axis 2 is the de-emphasis of RPC-oriented Web Services
	and a shift towards more document-oriented message style asynchronous service
	interactions. With Axis2 clients can interact with servers in a number of
	ways, and the client API provides both a blocking and non-blocking API. At
	the time of Axis1's design, RPC-style, synchronous, request-response
	interactions were the order of the day for Web services. Today service
	interactions are much more message-oriented and exploit many different
	message exchange patterns. The Axis2 engine architecture is careful not to
	build in any assumptions of request-response patterns to ensure that it can
	be used easily to support arbitrary message exchange patterns. Don't worry,
	you'll still be able to use Axis2 like you used Axis1. One just have a richer
	set of options for client-server interaction.</p>

	<h2>Archived News</h2>
	<h3>11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released! (<a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.94</a>)</h3>

	<p>This release includes the following features:</p>

	<h4 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Complete
	Features List</h4>
	<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 , 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 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>

	<p id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad"><b>Axis2 Experimental
	Features List</b></p>
	<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>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding
	service using generated client.</li>
	</ol>

	<h4 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since
	Last Release</h4>
	<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 , can have multiple versions of the same
	module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
	<li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly</li>
	<li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes</li>
	</ol>

	<h4 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This
	Release</h4>
	<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>

	<h4 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What's Still To
	Do?</h4>
	<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>


	<h3>02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released! ( <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.93</a>)</h3>

	<p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download it!. </a>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 types 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>
	<p><b>Experimental features list</b></p>
	<ol type="1">
	<li>DOOM - DOM implementation over OM</li>
	<li>Java2WSDL</li>
	<li>RPC Support</li>
	</ol>
	<h4>Major changes since last release</h4>
	<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 -> AxisOperation,
	ServiceDescription -> AxisService, ServiceGroupDescription ->
	AxisServiceGroup</li>
	</ol>
	We are getting closer to a 1.0 release, the remaining tasks to be completed
	before a 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation, Our own data
	binding implementation, WSDL Generation.

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