<h2>Reference Library</h2>
<p>The Axis Project lives or fails based on its human resources. Users and 
contributors alike help the project with ideas and brainpower. A common 
foundation of knowledge is required to effectively participate in this virtual 
community. The following is a list of documents that we have found helpful for 
us and may be helpful to you:</p>
<p>These resources are required reading for anybody contributing source code to 
the project.</p>
<p><b><font>SOAP Specific Resources</font></b> </p>
<p><b>SOAP W3C Specification</b>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/">1.1</a> &amp;
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/">1.2</a><br>
Required reading.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-attachments">SOAP Messaging with 
Attachments W3C Specification</a></b> <br>
SOAP combined with MIME.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP-dsig/">SOAP Security Extensions: 
Digital Signature Specification</a></b> <br>
Adding security to SOAP.</p>
<p><b>Other Specifications</b> </p>
<p>Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 
<a href="http://www.w3c.org/TR/wsdl.html">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/">2.0 </a></p>
<p>WS - Addressing <a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/">submission</a> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-ws-addr-core-20050331/">1.0 (31st March,2005)</a> </p>
<p><a href="ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ws-policy.pdf">Web Services Policy Framework (WSPolicy)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.0.html">WS-I Basic 
Profile Version 1.0</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/first/jsr101/index.html">
Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC)</a> </p>
<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-soap12-mtom-20050125/">SOAP Message 
Transmission Optimization Mechanism</a> </p>
<p><b>Other Resources</b> </p>
<p><b><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/index.html">The Java Language 
Specification</a></b> <br>
Written by the creators of the Java Programming Language, this online book is 
considered by many to be the bible for programming in Java. A must read.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/javadoc/index.html">Javadoc</a></b>
<br>
Javadoc is the automatic software documentation generator used by Java since it 
was first released. All code written for this project must be documented using 
Javadoc conventions.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html">The 
Java Code Conventions</a></b> <br>
This Sun document specifies the de-facto standard way of formatting Java code. 
All code written for this project must follow these conventions.</p>
<p><a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html"><strong>Version Control 
with SubVersion</strong></a><br>
Written by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato, . It 
provides details on SVN features.</p>
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