Axis2 0.94

Apache Axis2 is a next generation Web Services stack (client and server) written in Java that supports asynchronous calling, a high-performance object model, WS-Addressing, and a powerful extensibility model that supports WSReliableMessaging, WS-Sec, and WS-AtomicTransactions.
Main 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 , 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 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 Feature
- Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- New Feature
- Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
- Numerous bug fixes since last release
Enhancements:
- 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 , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.
- Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDLs properly
- Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes