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 <h1>Welcome to Apache Axis2/Java</h1>

 <h2>27th April 2007 - Apache Axis2/Java Version @axis2_version@ Released!</h2>

 <p>[ <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi"><strong>Download</strong></a>
 ] | [ <a href="@axis2_version_dir@/index.html"><strong>Documents
 Home</strong></a> ]</p>

 <p>Apache Axis2 is the core engine for Web services. It is a complete
 re-design and re-write of the widely used <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/">Apache Axis</a> SOAP stack, built on the
 lessons learnt from Apache Axis.</p>

 <h3><em>Apache Axis Project in a Nutshell:</em></h3>

 <p>Apache Axis is an implementation of the SOAP ("Simple Object Access
 Protocol") <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP">submission</a> to W3C.</p>

 <p>Extract from the draft W3C specification:</p>

 <blockquote>
   "SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured 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 datatypes, and a
   convention for representing remote procedure calls and
 responses."</blockquote>

 <p>This project is a follow-on to the <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/soap">Apache SOAP project</a>.</p>

 <p>Please see the <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/ref.html">Axis Reference
 Library</a> for a list of technical resources that should prove useful on
 this project.</p>

 <h3><em>Why Apache Axis2:</em></h3>

 <p>A new architecture for Axis was introduced during the August 2004 Summit
 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The new architecture on which Axis2 is based on is
 more flexible, efficient and configurable in comparison to <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html">Axis1.x
 architecture</a>. Some well established concepts from Axis 1.x, like handlers
 etc., have been preserved in the new architecture.</p>

 <p>Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has
 integrated support for the widely popular <a
 href="http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html">REST style of Web
 services</a>. 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 carefully designed to support the easy addition of
 plug-in "modules" that extend their functionality for features such as
 security and reliability. The <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Modules</a> currently
 available or under development include:</p>
 <ul>
   <li><a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm"
     target="_blank">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"
     target="_blank">WS-Coordination</a>  and <a
     href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/#atom"
     target="_blank">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"
     target="_blank">WS-Security</a> - Supported by <a
     href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/@axis2_version_dir@/security-module.html">Apache
     Rampart</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/"
     target="_blank">WS-Addressing</a> -Module 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.</p>

 <p>Axis2 comes with many new features, enhancements and industry
 specification implementations. The key features offered are as follows:</p>
 <ul>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Speed</strong> - Axis2 uses its
     own object model and StAX (Streaming API for XML) parsing to achieve
     significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Low memory foot print</strong>-
     Axis2 was designed ground-up keeping low memory foot print in mind.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>AXIOM</strong> - Axis2 comes with
     its own light-weight object model, AXIOM, for message processing which is
     extensible, highly performant and is developer convenient.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><a name="Hot_Deployment"></a>Hot
     Deployment</strong> - Axis2 is equipped with the capability of deploying
     Web services and handlers while the system is up and running. In other
     words, new services can be added to the system without having to shut
     down the server. Simply drop the required Web service archive into the
     services directory in the repository, and the deployment model will
     automatically deploy the service and make it available for use.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Asynchronous Web
     services</strong> - Axis2 now supports asynchronous Web services and
     asynchronous Web services invocation using non-blocking clients and
     transports.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>MEP Support</strong> - Axis2 now
     comes handy with the flexibility to support Message Exchange Patterns
     (MEPs) with in-built support for basic MEPs defined in WSDL 2.0.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Flexibility</strong> - The Axis2
     architecture gives the developer complete freedom to insert extensions
     into the engine for custom header processing, system management, and
     <em>anything else you can imagine</em>.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Stability</strong> - Axis2
     defines a set of published interfaces which change relatively slowly
     compared to the rest of Axis.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Component-oriented
     Deployment</strong> - You can easily define reusable networks of Handlers
     to implement common patterns of processing for your applications, or to
     distribute to partners.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Transport Framework</strong> - We
     have a clean and simple abstraction for integrating and using Transports
     (i.e., senders and listeners for SOAP over various protocols such as
     SMTP, FTP, message-oriented middleware, etc), and the core of the engine
     is completely transport-independent.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>WSDL support</strong> - Axis2
     supports the Web Service Description Language, version <a
     href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl">1.1</a> and <a
     href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/">2.0</a>, which allows you to easily
     build stubs to access remote services, and also to automatically export
     machine-readable descriptions of your deployed services from Axis2.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Add-ons</strong> - Several Web
     services specifications have been incorporated including <a
     href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/" target="_blank">WSS4J</a> for security
     (Apache Rampart), <a href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/"
     target="_blank">Sandesha</a> for reliable messaging, <a
     href="http://ws.apache.org/kandula/" target="_blank">Kandula</a> which is
     an encapsulation of WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and
     WS-BusinessActivity.</p>
   </li>
   <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Composition and
     Extensibility</strong> - Modules and phases improve support for
     composability and extensibility. Modules support composability and can
     also support new WS-* specifications in a simple and clean manner. They
     are however not <a href="#Hot_Deployment">hot deployable</a> as they
     change the overall behavior of the system.</p>
   </li>
 </ul>

 <p>We hope you enjoy using Axis2. Please note that this is an open-source
 effort. If you feel the code could use new features or fixes, or the
 documentation can be improved, please get involved and lend us a hand! The
 Axis developer community welcomes your participation.</p>

 <p>Let us know what you think! Send your feedback on Axis2 to "<a
 href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a>". Make sure
 to prefix the subject of the mail with [Axis2].</p>

 <h2>Features of Axis2 Latest Version</h2>

 <p>Apache Axis2 Version @axis2_version@ comes with performance improvements
 and bug fixes over the 1.1.1 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 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><a name="Tools_included_in this_Release">Tools Included in This
 Release</a></h2>

 <p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html"
 target="_blank">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"
     target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/CodegenToolReference.html"
     target="_blank">Command line version</a><a>/</a><a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation"
     target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a><a>/</a><a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html"
     target="_blank">Maven2 WSDL2Code Plug-in</a></li>
   <li>Service Archive Wizard- <a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html"
     target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a>/ <a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive"
     target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a>/ <a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html"
     target="_blank">Maven2 AAR Plug-in</a></li>
   <li>Java2WSDL- <a
     href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-java2wsdl-plugin.html"
     target="_blank">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>

 <h2>Archived News</h2>

 <p>For information on previous Axis2 releases running up to the current
 release see the <a href="archived_news.html" target="_blank">'Axis2 Archived
 News'</a> page.</p>
 For other news items from Apache Software Foundation see:
 <ul>
   <li><a
     href="http://www.apachenews.org/archives/cat_apache_webservices_index.html">Web
     services related news on the Apache News Blog Online</a></li>
   <li><a href="http://www.apachenews.org/">The Apache News Blog
   Online</a></li>
 </ul>
 </body>
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	<head>
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	<link href="css/axis-docs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all">
	</head>

	<body lang="en">
	<h1>Welcome to Apache Axis2/Java</h1>

	<h2>27th April 2007 - Apache Axis2/Java Version @axis2_version@ Released!</h2>

	<p>[ <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi"><strong>Download</strong></a>
	] \| [ <a href="@axis2_version_dir@/index.html"><strong>Documents
	Home</strong></a> ]</p>

	<p>Apache Axis2 is the core engine for Web services. It is a complete
	re-design and re-write of the widely used <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/">Apache Axis</a> SOAP stack, built on the
	lessons learnt from Apache Axis.</p>

	<h3><em>Apache Axis Project in a Nutshell:</em></h3>

	<p>Apache Axis is an implementation of the SOAP ("Simple Object Access
	Protocol") <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP">submission</a> to W3C.</p>

	<p>Extract from the draft W3C specification:</p>

	<blockquote>
	"SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured 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 datatypes, and a
	convention for representing remote procedure calls and
	responses."</blockquote>

	<p>This project is a follow-on to the <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/soap">Apache SOAP project</a>.</p>

	<p>Please see the <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/ref.html">Axis Reference
	Library</a> for a list of technical resources that should prove useful on
	this project.</p>

	<h3><em>Why Apache Axis2:</em></h3>

	<p>A new architecture for Axis was introduced during the August 2004 Summit
	in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The new architecture on which Axis2 is based on is
	more flexible, efficient and configurable in comparison to <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html">Axis1.x
	architecture</a>. Some well established concepts from Axis 1.x, like handlers
	etc., have been preserved in the new architecture.</p>

	<p>Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has
	integrated support for the widely popular <a
	href="http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html">REST style of Web
	services</a>. 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 carefully designed to support the easy addition of
	plug-in "modules" that extend their functionality for features such as
	security and reliability. The <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Modules</a> currently
	available or under development include:</p>
	<ul>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm"
	target="_blank">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"
	target="_blank">WS-Coordination</a> and <a
	href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-tx/#atom"
	target="_blank">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"
	target="_blank">WS-Security</a> - Supported by <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/@axis2_version_dir@/security-module.html">Apache
	Rampart</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/"
	target="_blank">WS-Addressing</a> -Module 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.</p>

	<p>Axis2 comes with many new features, enhancements and industry
	specification implementations. The key features offered are as follows:</p>
	<ul>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Speed</strong> - Axis2 uses its
	own object model and StAX (Streaming API for XML) parsing to achieve
	significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Low memory foot print</strong>-
	Axis2 was designed ground-up keeping low memory foot print in mind.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>AXIOM</strong> - Axis2 comes with
	its own light-weight object model, AXIOM, for message processing which is
	extensible, highly performant and is developer convenient.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><a name="Hot_Deployment"></a>Hot
	Deployment</strong> - Axis2 is equipped with the capability of deploying
	Web services and handlers while the system is up and running. In other
	words, new services can be added to the system without having to shut
	down the server. Simply drop the required Web service archive into the
	services directory in the repository, and the deployment model will
	automatically deploy the service and make it available for use.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Asynchronous Web
	services</strong> - Axis2 now supports asynchronous Web services and
	asynchronous Web services invocation using non-blocking clients and
	transports.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>MEP Support</strong> - Axis2 now
	comes handy with the flexibility to support Message Exchange Patterns
	(MEPs) with in-built support for basic MEPs defined in WSDL 2.0.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Flexibility</strong> - The Axis2
	architecture gives the developer complete freedom to insert extensions
	into the engine for custom header processing, system management, and
	<em>anything else you can imagine</em>.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Stability</strong> - Axis2
	defines a set of published interfaces which change relatively slowly
	compared to the rest of Axis.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Component-oriented
	Deployment</strong> - You can easily define reusable networks of Handlers
	to implement common patterns of processing for your applications, or to
	distribute to partners.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Transport Framework</strong> - We
	have a clean and simple abstraction for integrating and using Transports
	(i.e., senders and listeners for SOAP over various protocols such as
	SMTP, FTP, message-oriented middleware, etc), and the core of the engine
	is completely transport-independent.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>WSDL support</strong> - Axis2
	supports the Web Service Description Language, version <a
	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl">1.1</a> and <a
	href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/">2.0</a>, which allows you to easily
	build stubs to access remote services, and also to automatically export
	machine-readable descriptions of your deployed services from Axis2.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Add-ons</strong> - Several Web
	services specifications have been incorporated including <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/" target="_blank">WSS4J</a> for security
	(Apache Rampart), <a href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/"
	target="_blank">Sandesha</a> for reliable messaging, <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/kandula/" target="_blank">Kandula</a> which is
	an encapsulation of WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and
	WS-BusinessActivity.</p>
	</li>
	<li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Composition and
	Extensibility</strong> - Modules and phases improve support for
	composability and extensibility. Modules support composability and can
	also support new WS-* specifications in a simple and clean manner. They
	are however not <a href="#Hot_Deployment">hot deployable</a> as they
	change the overall behavior of the system.</p>
	</li>
	</ul>

	<p>We hope you enjoy using Axis2. Please note that this is an open-source
	effort. If you feel the code could use new features or fixes, or the
	documentation can be improved, please get involved and lend us a hand! The
	Axis developer community welcomes your participation.</p>

	<p>Let us know what you think! Send your feedback on Axis2 to "<a
	href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a>". Make sure
	to prefix the subject of the mail with [Axis2].</p>

	<h2>Features of Axis2 Latest Version</h2>

	<p>Apache Axis2 Version @axis2_version@ comes with performance improvements
	and bug fixes over the 1.1.1 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 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><a name="Tools_included_in this_Release">Tools Included in This
	Release</a></h2>

	<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html"
	target="_blank">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"
	target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/CodegenToolReference.html"
	target="_blank">Command line version</a><a>/</a><a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation"
	target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a><a>/</a><a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html"
	target="_blank">Maven2 WSDL2Code Plug-in</a></li>
	<li>Service Archive Wizard- <a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html"
	target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a>/ <a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive"
	target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a>/ <a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html"
	target="_blank">Maven2 AAR Plug-in</a></li>
	<li>Java2WSDL- <a
	href="tools/@axis2_version_dir@/maven-plugins/maven-java2wsdl-plugin.html"
	target="_blank">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><sequence minOccurs="0"
	maxOccurs="unbounded"></sequence></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>

	<h2>Archived News</h2>

	<p>For information on previous Axis2 releases running up to the current
	release see the <a href="archived_news.html" target="_blank">'Axis2 Archived
	News'</a> page.</p>
	For other news items from Apache Software Foundation see:
	<ul>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.apachenews.org/archives/cat_apache_webservices_index.html">Web
	services related news on the Apache News Blog Online</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.apachenews.org/">The Apache News Blog
	Online</a></li>
	</ul>
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