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| <h1>Axis2 Release Notes</h1> | |
| This is Axis2 0.94 release of the Apache Axis2. | |
| <h3 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Axis2 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 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 - New Feature </li> | |
| <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- New Feature </li> | |
| <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler) </li> | |
| <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release </li> | |
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| <h3 id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad">Axis2 Experimental Features List</h3> | |
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| <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> | |
| <h3 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since Last Release</h3> | |
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| <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> | |
| <h3 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This Release</h3> | |
| <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> | |
| <h3 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">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 & able! </p> | |
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| <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> | |
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| <p>Axis2 is taking shape, this 0.94 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be coming soon. | |
| If you happen to have vision of how the next generation of the Web Service should be, and like to contribute to | |
| Apache Axis2 please help us to shape the Apache Axis2. 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> | |
| -- The Axis Development Team | |
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