Apache Axis2 Version 1.1.1

Apache Axis2 Version 1.1.1 comes to you with performance improvements and bug fixes over the 1.1 release. Check out the complete features list below.

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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

(Apache Axis2 comes built in with a module that supports WS-Addressing.)

Known Issues and Limitations

• ADB does not support 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
• RPC Message Receiver does not validate request against the schema (AXIS2-1943)
• Axis2 Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is used