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| <h1>Welcome to Apache Axis2</h1> |
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| <h3>04 May 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 1.0 Released!</h3>
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| <p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 1.0</a>]</p>
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| <p>Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used
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| Apache Axis SOAP stack to build on the lessons learnt from Apache Axis.</p>
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| <p>Apache Axis2 is more efficient, more modular and more XML-oriented than
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| the older version. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of
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| plug-in "modules" that extend its functionality for features such as security and reliability.</p> |
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| <p>Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has
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| integrated support for the widely popular REST style of Web services: the
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| same business logic implementation can offer both a WS-* style interface as
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| well as a REST style interface simultaneously.</p> |
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| href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm"
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| target="_blank">WS-ReliableMessaging</a> - Supported by <a href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/sandesha2/">Apache Sandesha2</a></li>
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| href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss"
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| target="_blank">WS-Security</a> - Supported by <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Apache Rampart</a></li>
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| <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/"
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| target="_blank">WS-Addressing</a> - <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/index.html">Module</a> included as part of Axis2 core</li>
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| <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
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| XML object model that was released two days ago.</p> |
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| <h2>Features</h2>
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| <h3>Programming Model</h3>
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| <li>Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy
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| <li>Support for any message exchange pattern</li>
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| <li>Synchronous and asynchronous calls</li>
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| <li>Archived service deployment model </li>
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| <li>Archived module deployment model supporting controlled extensibility
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| with versioning support</li>
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| <li>Hot deployment</li>
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| <li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
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| <li>Flexible service lifecyle model</li>
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| <li>Support for querying service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd)
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| and policies (using ?policy)</li>
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| <h3>Supported Specifications</h3>
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| <li>SOAP 1.1 and 1.2</li>
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| <li>Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML Optimized
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| Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments</li>
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| <li>WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings</li>
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| <li>WS-Addressing (submission and final)</li>
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| <li>WS-Policy</li>
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| <li>SAAJ 1.1</li>
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| <h3>Transports</h3>
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| <li>HTTP</li>
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| <li>SMTP</li>
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| <li>JMS</li>
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| <li>TCP</li>
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| <h3>Supported Data Bindings</h3>
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| <li>Axis Data Binding (ADB)</li>
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| <li>XMLBeans</li>
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| <li>JibX</li>
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| <li>JaxMe</li>
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| <h3><a name="Tools_included_in this_Release">Tools Included In This
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| Release</a></h3>
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| <p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/index.html"
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| target="_blank">[Download plug-ins]</a></p>
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| <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
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| <li>WSDL2WS- <a href="../tools/1_0/eclipse/wsdl2java-plugin.html"
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| target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a><a>/</a> <a
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| href="../tools/1_0/CodegenToolReference.html" target="_blank">Command
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| line version</a><a>/</a><a
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| href="../tools/1_0/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation"
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| target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a></li>
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| <li>Service Archive Wizard- <a
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| href="../tools/1_0/eclipse/servicearchiver-plugin.html"
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| target="_blank">eclipse plug-in</a>/ <a
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| href="../tools/1_0/idea/Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive"
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| target="_blank">IntelliJ IDEA plug-in</a></li>
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| <h3>Extension Modules</h3>
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| <li>Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon WS-Policy)</li>
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| <li>Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging</li>
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| (Apache Axis2 comes built in with a module that supports WS-Addressing.)
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| <h2>Known Issues and Limitations</h2>
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| <li>Recursive schemas (A includes B which includes A) may cause
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| <li>JaxMe data binding support is experimental</li>
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| <li>Axis2-595: Hot re-deployment in Apache Tomcat has problems</li>
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| <li>Axis2-666: AddressingSubmissionInHandler does not deserialize EPR
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| extensibility attributes and elements</li>
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| <li>AXIS2-667: Operation dispatch based on message body has a known
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| <li>Axis Data Binding (ADB) does not cover all of XML Schema; its an 80-20
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| design point. Unsupported XML Schema features include:
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| <li>Simple content extension and restriction</li>
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| <li>Complex content restriction</li>
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| <li>ADB does not support xsi:type based deserialization at runtime</li>
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| <li>No support yet for unwrapping of doc/lit WSDL files (in stub
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| <li>No support yet for rpc/encoded style WSDL documents (in stub
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