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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 datatypes, 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 lends
 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">WS-ReliableMessaging</a></li>
   <li><a
     href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss">WS-Security</a></li>
   <li><a
   href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/">WS-Addressing</a></li>
 </ul>

 <h2>Latest Release</h2>

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

 <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>

 <h3 id="head-4804f145dbcf856d6cfef8fc5fff555e5590931b">Experimental features list</h3>
 <ol type="1">
   <li> DOOM - DOM implementation over OM </li>
   <li> Java2WSDL </li>
   <li> RPC Support </li>
 </ol>
 <h3>Major changes since 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>
 <p>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.</p>
 <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 MessageContext 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 atop 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; thus 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, 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 scaleable 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 to not
 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, you'll just have
 a richer set of options for client-server interaction.</p>

 <h2>Archived News</h2>
 <p><b>26 September 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.92 Released!</b> <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">(Download 0.92)</a></p>
 <p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a href="releases.html#0.9">Download it!</a> This 0.92 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming soon. 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>and numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release</li>
   <p>The release includes following tools</p>
   <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, 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.</p>
 <p><b>12 August 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.91 Released!</b> <a
 href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">(Download 0.91)</a></p>

 <p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
 it!</a>  This 0.91 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming 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>

 <p></p>

 <p><b>02 July 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.9 Released!</b> <a
 href="releases.html#0.9">(Download 0.9)</a></p>

 <p>Axis2 is taking shape. <a href="releases.html#0.9">Download it!</a> This
 0.9 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming 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>

 <p><b>07 June 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 2 (M2) Released</b></p>

 <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>
 This release also includes tools such as an administraion web application,
 and three Eclipse plug-ins: WSDL2WS, Service Archive Wizard, and Module
 Archive Wizard.

 <p><b>24 February 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 1 (M1) Released</b></p>

 <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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	<body>
	<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 datatypes, 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 lends
	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">WS-ReliableMessaging</a></li>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss">WS-Security</a></li>
	<li><a
	href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/">WS-Addressing</a></li>
	</ul>

	<h2>Latest Release</h2>

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

	<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>

	<h3 id="head-4804f145dbcf856d6cfef8fc5fff555e5590931b">Experimental features list</h3>
	<ol type="1">
	<li> DOOM - DOM implementation over OM </li>
	<li> Java2WSDL </li>
	<li> RPC Support </li>
	</ol>
	<h3>Major changes since 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 -> AxisOperation, ServiceDescription -> AxisService, ServiceGroupDescription -> AxisServiceGroup</li>
	</ol>
	<p>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.</p>
	<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 MessageContext 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 atop 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; thus 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, 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 scaleable 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 to not
	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, you'll just have
	a richer set of options for client-server interaction.</p>

	<h2>Archived News</h2>
	<p><b>26 September 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.92 Released!</b> <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">(Download 0.92)</a></p>
	<p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a href="releases.html#0.9">Download it!</a> This 0.92 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming soon. 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>and numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release</li>
	<p>The release includes following tools</p>
	<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, 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.</p>
	<p><b>12 August 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.91 Released!</b> <a
	href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">(Download 0.91)</a></p>

	<p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download
	it!</a> This 0.91 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming 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>

	<p></p>

	<p><b>02 July 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.9 Released!</b> <a
	href="releases.html#0.9">(Download 0.9)</a></p>

	<p>Axis2 is taking shape. <a href="releases.html#0.9">Download it!</a> This
	0.9 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming 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>

	<p><b>07 June 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 2 (M2) Released</b></p>

	<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>
	This release also includes tools such as an administraion web application,
	and three Eclipse plug-ins: WSDL2WS, Service Archive Wizard, and Module
	Archive Wizard.

	<p><b>24 February 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 1 (M1) Released</b></p>

	<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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