Apache Axis2 Archived News

This document contains details of each Axis2 version that was released, up to the current version.

Content

Apache Axis2 Releases:

13rd August 2007 - Version 1.3
27th April 2007 - Version 1.2
09th January 2007- Version 1.1.1
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

13rd August 2007 - Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.3 Released!

Apache Axis2 Version 1.3 comes with performance improvements and a number bug fixes over the 1.2 release. Check out the complete list of features below.

Programming Model

Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy support
Support for POJO and Spring services and clients
Support for any message exchange pattern
Synchronous and asynchronous calls
Archived service deployment model supporting full service encapsulation with versioning support
Archived module deployment model supporting controlled extensibility with versioning support
Hot deployment
WS-Policy driven code generation extensions
Flexible service life cycle model
Automatic support for POX (REST) style invocation of services
Support for querying a service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)
WSDL 2.0
POJO annotation (JSR 181)
JAX-WS intregration
Custom Deployers
Binary serialization (Fast Infoset)
JSON support
EJB Provider support

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
JaxBRI (Experimental)

Tools Included in This Release

[Download Tool Plug-ins]

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

27th April 2007 - Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.2 Released!

[Download 1.2]

Programming Model

Improved, XML-centric client API including full WSDL and policy support
Support for POJO and Spring services and clients
Support for any message exchange pattern
Synchronous and asynchronous calls
Archived service deployment model supporting full service encapsulation with versioning support
Archived module deployment model supporting controlled extensibility with versioning support
Hot deployment
WS-Policy driven code generation extensions
Flexible service life cycle model
Automatic support for POX (REST) style invocation of services
Support for querying a service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd) and policies (using ?policy)
WSDL 2.0
POJO annotation (JSR 181)
JAX-WS intregration
Custom Deployers
Binary serialization (Fast Infoset)
JSON support
EJB Provider support

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 (Experimental)
JaxBRI (Experimental)

Tools Included in this Release

[Download Tool Plug-ins]

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

Xml-beans databinding does not support response unwrapping
ADB databinding does not support minOccurs and maxOccurs attributes in sequence and choice elements (i.e., <sequence minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"></sequence>)
Unable to produce original WSDL in the case of WSDL 2.0, therefore the AxisService is serialized to produce ?wsdl2.

09th January 2007- Apache Axis2/Java Version 1.1.1 Released!

[Download 1.1.1]

Apache Axis2 Version 1.1.1 comes with performance improvements and bug fixes over the 1.1 release. Check out the complete list of features 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 a 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]

Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
WSDL2WS- eclipse plug-in / Command line version /IntelliJ IDEA plug-in /Maven2 WSDL2Code Plug-in
Service Archive Wizard- eclipse plug-in/ IntelliJ IDEA plug-in/ Maven2 AAR Plug-in
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 a request against the schema (AXIS2-1943)
Axis2 Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is used

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

[Download 1.1]

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

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

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 constructs:
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, built 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 designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend their functionality for features such as security and reliability. The 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 on 02 May 2006.

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 a 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]

Axis2 Web Application (Web App)
WSDL2WS- eclipse plug-in / Command line version /IntelliJ IDEA plug-in
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

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

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 the 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 List of Features

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, a mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model
Module version support; you can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
Context hierarchy
Archive based deployment model and Directory based deployment model
JWS-like deployment (making a Java class into a Web service)
WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons
WS-Addressing, both in 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 start when the application server starts up-New
Module disengagement support-New
Loading module (.mar) from classpath-New
Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels-New

Axis2 List of Experimental Features

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

Major Changes Since Last Release

Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)

   <actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping>

Changed the way you add action to mapping (wsamapping) from a parameter to a child element. Therefore, from this version onward, adding mapping is as follows:
Refactored the 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

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

What Still Needs to be Done

The list of what we think needs to be done. Even you can consider helping out if you are interested.

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

11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released!

[Download 0.94]

This release includes the following features:

The Complete List of Features

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; you can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
Context hierarchy
Archive based deployment Model, and Directory based deployment model
JWS-like deployment (making a Java class into a Web service)
WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub 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
REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support
Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS
Raw XML providers
Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA
SAAJ implementation
DOOM - New
Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code - New
Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
Numerous bug fixes since last release

Axis2 List of Experimental Features

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

Major Changes Since the Last Release

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

Tools Included in this Release

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

What Still Needs to be Done

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

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 type 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

List of Experimental Features

DOOM - DOM implementation over OM
Java2WSDL
RPC Support

Major Changes Since the Last Release

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

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

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
Numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release

The Release Includes the 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, and the remaining tasks to be completed before a 1.0 release include: SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation, our own data binding implementation, and WSDL generation.

12 August 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.91 Released!

[Download 0.91]

This 0.91 release is a glimpse of the 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 the 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

This release also includes the following tools:

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