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25 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 v0.95 Released

25 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 v0.95 Released
Apache Axis2 team is proud to announce the release of Axis2 0.95 version.

You can download the release from : http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

Axis2 version 0.95 comes with 5 different packages, giving you the flexibility to select one of them to suit your own requirements. Please see http://ws.apache.org/axis2/0_95/installationguide.html for further details about different distributables.

Complete Features List:

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.
Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out).
Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing model.
Module version support, can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
Content hierarchy
Archive based deployment model and Directory based deployment model
JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)
WSDL Code Generation tool for stubs and skeletons
WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
WSS4J module for security
Improved and user friendly Client API
WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support
Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS
Raw XML providers
Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA
SAAJ implementation
DOOM
Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code
Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
Numerous bug fixes since last release
Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager) - New
AxisServlet auto starts when the application server starts up - New
Module disengagemnt support - New
Loading modules (.mar files) from classpath - New
Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels - New

Experimental Features List:

Server side and client side Web service Policy support
wsdl and xsd support
Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client

Major Changes Since Last Release:

Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)
The way to add an action mapping (wsamapping) has been moved from being a parameter to a child element. With this version onwards the way of adding an action mapping is as follows: <actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping>
Refactored following packages in Axiom:
- org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.builder to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.builder
- org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.mtom to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.mtom
- org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.serialize to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.serialize
- org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.llom.traverse to org.apache.ws.commons.om.impl.traverse

Tools Included In This Release:

Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
WSDL2WS - Command line version

What's Still To Do? See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if you're interested and able!

JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance
SOAP Encoding
Binary serialization and de-serialization support
Management Interface for Axis2
Implementation of other Transports.
Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services such as JSR 109 support
Completion of Interop tests

Axis2 is taking shape, this 0.95 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that is coming soon. If you happen to have a vision of how the next generation Web services platform should be, contribute to Apache Axis2, and help us shape it. Any contribution in the form of coding, testing, submitting improvements to the documentation, and reporting bugs are always welcome.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2!

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-- The Apache Axis2 Team

[ Category : Apache WebServices ]

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