Apache Axis2 Archived News

This document will contain details on each of the Axis2 versions that were released up to the current version.

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Apache Axis2 Releases:

• 13th November 2006- Version 1.1
• 04 May 2006- Version 1.0
• 23 March 2006- Version 0.95
• 11 January 2006- Version 0.94
• 02 December 2005 - Version 0.93
• 26 September 2005 - Version 0.92
• 12 August 2005 - Version 0.91
• 02 July 2005 - Version 0.9
• 07 June 2005 - Milestone 2
• 24 February 2005 - Milestone 1

13th November 2006 - Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.1 Released!

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Apache Axis2 Version 1.1 comes to you with better Axis2 Databinding Framework (ADB) support, attachments API, Spring and complete support for SOAP with Attachments (SwA). Check out the complete features list below.

Programming Model

• Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy support
• Support for any message exchange pattern
• Synchronous and asynchronous calls
• Archived service deployment model
• Archived module deployment model supporting controlled extensibility with versioning support
• Hot deployment
• WS-Policy driven code generation extensions
• Flexible service life cycle model
• Support for querying service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)

Supported Specifications

• SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
• Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments
• WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings
• WS-Addressing (submission and final)
• WS-Policy
• SAAJ 1.1

Transports

• HTTP
• SMTP
• JMS
• TCP

Supported Data Bindings

• Axis Data Binding (ADB)
• XMLBeans
• JibX
• JaxMe

Tools Included In This Release

[Download Tool Plug-ins]

1. Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
2. WSDL2WS- eclipse plug-in/ Command line version/IntelliJ IDEA plug-in/Maven2 WSDL2Code Plug-in
3. Service Archive Wizard- eclipse plug-in/ IntelliJ IDEA plug-in/ Maven2 AAR Plug-in
4. Java2WSDL- Maven2 Java2WSDL Plug-in

Extension Modules

• Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon WS-Policy)
• Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging

Known Issues and Limitations

• JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental
• AXIS2-595: Hot re-deployment in Apache Tomcat has problems
• Axis Data Binding (ADB) does not support the following construct(s):
  1. AXIS2-983: Support for Simple Type Union and Simple Type List
  2. AXIS2-1092: Support for xs:list inside an xs:simpleType
  3. AXIS2-1093: Support for xs:union inside xs:simpleType
• No support yet for unwrapping of doc/lit WSDL files (in stub generation)
• No support yet for rpc/encoded style WSDL documents (in stub generation)
• Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is used

04 May 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 1.0 Released!

[Download 1.0]

Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack to build on the lessons learnt from Apache Axis.

Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has integrated support for the widely popular REST style of Web services: the same business logic implementation can offer both a WS-* style interface as well as a REST style interface simultaneously.

Apache Axis2 is more efficient, more modular and more XML-oriented than the older version. 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 currently available or under development include:

• WS-ReliableMessaging - Supported by Apache Sandesha2
• WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction - Supported by Apache Kandula2
• WS-Security - Supported by Apache Rampart
• WS-Addressing - Module included as part of Axis2 core

Apache Axis2 is built on Apache Axiom, a new high performant, pull-based XML object model that was released two days ago.

Features

Programming Model

• Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy support
• Support for any message exchange pattern
• Synchronous and asynchronous calls
• Archived service deployment model
• Archived module deployment model supporting controlled extensibility with versioning support
• Hot deployment
• WS-Policy driven code generation extensions
• Flexible service lifecyle model
• Support for querying service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)

Supported Specifications

• SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
• Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM), XML Optimized Packaging (XOP) and SOAP with Attachments
• WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings
• WS-Addressing (submission and final)
• WS-Policy
• SAAJ 1.1

Transports

• HTTP
• SMTP
• JMS
• TCP

Supported Data Bindings

• Axis Data Binding (ADB)
• XMLBeans
• JibX
• JaxMe

Tools Included In This Release

[Download plug-ins]

1. Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
2. WSDL2WS- eclipse plug-in/ Command line version/IntelliJ IDEA plug-in
3. Service Archive Wizard- eclipse plug-in/ IntelliJ IDEA plug-in

Extension Modules

• Apache Rampart: Supporting WS-Security (and soon WS-Policy)
• Apache Sandesha2: Supporting WS-Reliable Messaging

Known Issues and Limitations

• Recursive schemas (A includes B which includes A) may cause problems
• JaxMe data binding support is experimental
• Axis2-595: Hot re-deployment in Apache Tomcat has problems
• Axis2-666: AddressingSubmissionInHandler does not deserialize EPR extensibility attributes and elements
• AXIS2-667: Operation dispatch based on message body has a known issue
• Axis Data Binding (ADB) does not cover all of XML Schema; its an 80-20 design point. Unsupported XML Schema features include:
  1. Simple content extension and restriction
  2. Complex content restriction
• ADB does not support xsi:type based deserialization at runtime
• No support yet for unwrapping of doc/lit WSDL files (in stub generation)
• No support yet for rpc/encoded style WSDL documents (in stub generation)

23 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.95 Released!

[Download 0.95]

This release includes the following features:

Axis2 Complete Features List

1. 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.
2. Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
3. Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model
4. Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
5. Context hierarchy
6. Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model
7. JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)
8. WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons
9. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
10. WSS4J module for security
11. Improved and user friendly Client API
12. WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL
13. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support
14. Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS
15. Raw XML providers
16. Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA
17. SAAJ implementation
18. DOOM
19. Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code
20. Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
21. Numerous bug fixes since last release
22. Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)-New
23. AxisServlet auto start when application server get start up-New
24. Module disengagement support-New
25. Loading module (.mar) from classpath-New
26. Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels-New

Axis2 Experimental Features List

1. Server side & client side Web Service Policy support
2. ?wsdl and ?xsd support
3. Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client.

Major Changes Since Last Release

1. Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)
2. Changed the way of adding action to mapping (wsamapping) from parameter to child element so with this version onward the way of adding mapping is as follows:

   <actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping>
   

3. Refactored following packages in Axiom.
   • org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.builder to org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder
   • org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.mtom to org.apache.axiom.om.impl.mtom
   • org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.serialize to org.apache.axiom.om.impl.serialize
   • org.apache.axiom.om.impl.llom.traverse to org.apache.axiom.om.impl.traverse

Tools Included In This Release

1. Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
2. 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 & able!

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

11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released!

[Download 0.94]

This release includes the following features:

Complete Features List

1. 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.
2. Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
3. Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model
4. Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
5. Context hierarchy
6. Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model
7. JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)
8. WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons
9. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
10. WSS4J module for security
11. Improved and user friendly Client API
12. WSDL2Java
13. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support
14. Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS
15. Raw XML providers
16. Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA
17. SAAJ implementation
18. DOOM - New
19. Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- New
20. Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
21. Numerous bug fixes since last release

Axis2 Experimental Features List

1. Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels
2. Server side Web Service Policy support
3. ?wsdl and ?xsd support
4. Java2WSDL
5. Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client.

Major Changes Since Last Release

1. Fixing of memory leaks
2. Client API changes , Introducing ServiceClient instead of MEPClient, InOnlyMEPClient, InOutMEPClient, Call. (Please note that the above classes will be deprecated in this release.)
3. Module versioning support , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
4. Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly
5. Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes

Tools Included In This Release

1. Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
2. WSDL2WS- Eclipse plugin/ Command line version/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin
3. Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plugin/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin

What's Still To Do?

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

02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released!

[Download 0.93]

Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. This 0.93 release contains the following additional features:

• JDK 1.5 compatibility
• Configurable handler chains using axis2.xml
• Improved class loader hierarchy
• Improved security module with dynamic configurability
• ADB (Axis Data Binding) with complete simple types support and limited complex type support
• Jalopy based code formatting of generated code
• Proxy support and NTLM authentication
• support for rpc/literal
• And numerous bug fixes after 0.92 release

Experimental Features List

1. DOOM - DOM implementation over OM
2. Java2WSDL
3. RPC Support

Major Changes Since Last Release

1. Refactored org.apache.axis2.clientapi to org.apache.axis2.client
2. Introduction of Options to configure clients
3. Renaming of descriptors. OperationDescription -> AxisOperation, ServiceDescription -> AxisService, ServiceGroupDescription -> AxisServiceGroup

26 September 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.92 Released!

[Download 0.92]

This 0.92 release contains the following additional features:

• WS-Security support using WSS4J
• Support for context hierarchy serialization
• Service Groups
• and numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release

The Release Includes Following Tools

• Admin Web App
• WSDL2Java, eclipse Plugin/Command line version
• Service Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
• Module Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
• Service Archive Wizard, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin

We are getting closer to a 1.0 release, the remaining tasks to be completed before a 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation, Our own data binding implementation, WSDL Generation.

12 August 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.91 Released!

[Download 0.91]

This 0.91 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be coming soon. This 0.91 release contains the following additional features:

• File Caching for MTOM
• SOAP Faults based on the SOAP version and better fault handling
• Different character encoding support
• Improved infoset support in AXIOM
• Improved code generation templates
• Numerous bug fixes

02 July 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.9 Released!

[Download 0.9]

Axis2 is taking shape. This 0.9 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should be coming soon. This 0.9 release contains the following additional features:

• XML Beans based data binding support
• Support for WS-Addressing, both the submission and final versions
• REST Web Service Support
• MTOM/SWA attachments support
• SAAJ implementation

07 June 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 2 (M2) Released

Apache Axis2 is starting to take shape, features implemented in this second milestone release are:

• Modules - a mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model
• Support for WS-Addressing
• Axis2 Client API - Blocking and Non-Blocking API
• Support for One-Way Messaging and Request Response Messaging
• WSDL Code Generation Tool.
• HTTP, SMTP, and TCP transport Support

• Administration web application,
• WSDL2WS-Eclipse plug-in
• Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plug-in
• Module Archive Wizard-Eclipse plug-in

24 February 2005 - Apache Axis2 Milestone 1 (M1) Released

This first milestone release of Axis2 includes the following features:

• AXIOM, a SOAP specific streaming XML infoset model for SOAP 1.1/1.2 Messages
• WSDL Object Model built based on the proposed WSDL 2.0 Component Model.
• Handler framework with the support to specify the location of the Handler in a specific Phase
• Support to bundle and enable the Handlers as Modules
• Support for the Synchronous and Asynchronous IN-OUT messaging over HTTP transport
• Hot deployment of Web Services