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27 September 2005 - Apache Axis2 0.92 Released

The Apache Axis Development Team announced the availability of the version 0.92 of Apache Axis2.

You can download the release from:

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

This release includes the following features:

1. Complete XML infoset support for AXIOM
2. AXIOM, a SOAP specific streaming XML infoset model for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages
3. Support for one-way messaging and request response messaging
4. Modules, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
5. Archives based deployment model
6. WSDL2Java code generation tool for stub and skeltons
7. XMLBeans based data binding support
8. Support for WS-Addressing, both the submission and final versions
9. Client API
10. REST web service support
11. HTTP transport support
12. SMTP transport support
13. TCP transport support
14. MTOM/SWA attachments support
15. SAAJ implementation
16. WS-Security support using WSS4J
17. Support for context hierarchy serialization
18. and numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release

The release include following tools:

1. Admin Web App
2. WSDL2Java, eclipse Plugin/Command line version
3. Service Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
4. Module Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
5. Service Archive Wizard, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin

What's still to do?

Please see a list of what we think needs doing - and please consider helping out if you're interested & able!

1. SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation
2. JAX-RPC 1.1/2.0 compliance
3. Implementation of other transports. e.g. JMS..
4. WSDL Generation
5. Axis2 Databinding implementation

Axis2 is taking shape, this 0.92 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be comming 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, submiting improvements to the documentation, and reporting bugs are always welcome.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2!

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-- The Apache Axis Development Team