Apache News Online

14 November 2006 - Apache Axis2 1.1 Released

Just over 6 months since the original 1.0 release, we, the Apache Axis2 development team members, are very proud to announce the release of Apache Axis2 version 1.1.

Downloads are available at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis engine and is a more efficient, more scalable, more modular and more XML-oriented Web services framework. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend its functionality for features such as security and reliability.

Modules supporting WS-Security/Secure-Conversation (Apache Rampart), WS-Trust (Apache Rahas), WS-Reliable Messaging (Apache Sandesha) and WS-Eventing (Apache Savan) will be available soon after the Apache Axis2 1.1 release. Please see these projects' own sites for further information.

Major Changes Since 1.0:

• Significantly improved documentation
• Significantly improved support for POJO services and clients
• Significantly improved support for Spring services
• Significantly improved Axis Data Binding (ADB) to increase schema coverage and overall stability
• Improved service lifecycle model
• Improved JMS support
• Improved handler and module interfaces
• Improved Eclipse and Idea plugins
• New Attachments API for sending & receiving MTOM and SwA attachments
• Built in support for WS-Policy via Apache Neethi
• Added support for unwrapping Web service requests
• Fixed tons of small and not-so-small bugs
• Major refactoring of release structure to make usage easy

Known Issues and Limitations in 1.1 Release:

• Unwrapping of response messages (coming in 1.2)
• JSR 181/183 Annotation support (coming in 1.2)
• JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental
• Simple Axis Server does not support POX/REST

Apache Axis2 1.1 is a major new release compared to Axis2 1.0. We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a satisfying experienced user experience with this release. We welcome any and all feedback at:

• axis-user@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• axis-dev@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2

Thank you for your interest in Apache Axis2

----

-- The Apache Axis2 Development Team