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latest/userguide1.html
Author: chatra
Date: Thu Mar 9 01:33:28 2006
New Revision: 384472
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=384472&view=rev
Log:
made updates for 0.95 on features
Modified:
webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html
webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/latest/userguide1.html
Modified: webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html?rev=384472&r1=384471&r2=384472&view=diff
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--- webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html (original)
+++ webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html Thu Mar 9 01:33:28 2006
@@ -49,73 +49,66 @@
<h2>Latest Release</h2>
-<p><b>11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released! (<a
-href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.94</a>)</b></p>
+<p><b>13 March 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.95 Released! (<a
+href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.95</a>)</b></p>
<p>This release includes the following features:</p>
<h3 id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558">Axis2 Complete
Features List</h3>
<ol type="1">
- <li>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.</li>
- <li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging
- (In-Out)</li>
- <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
- <li>Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module
- and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
- <li>Content hierarchy</li>
- <li>Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model</li>
- <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li>
- <li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
- <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08)
- versions</li>
- <li>WSS4J module for security</li>
- <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
- <li>WSDL2Java</li>
- <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
- <li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
- <li>Raw XML providers</li>
- <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
- <li>SAAJ implementation</li>
- <li>DOOM - New Feature</li>
- <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- New Feature</li>
- <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
- <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ <li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)</li>
+ <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
+ <li>Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
+ <li>Content hierarchy</li>
+ <li>Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model</li>
+ <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li>
+ <li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
+ <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions</li>
+ <li>WSS4J module for security</li>
+ <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
+ <li>WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL</li>
+ <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
+ <li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
+ <li>Raw XML providers</li>
+ <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
+ <li>SAAJ implementation</li>
+ <li>DOOM</li>
+ <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code</li>
+ <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
+ <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
+ <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>AxisServlet auto start when application server get start up-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Module dis-engagemnt support-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Loading module (.mar) from classpath-<span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad">Axis2 Experimental
Features List</h3>
<ol type="1">
- <li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request
- levels</li>
- <li>Server side Web Service Policy support</li>
- <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
- <li>Java2WSDL</li>
- <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding
- service using generated client.</li>
+ <li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels</li>
+ <li>Server side Web Service Policy support</li>
+ <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
+ <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client.</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12">Major Changes Since
Last Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
- <li>Fixing of memory leaks</li>
- <li>Client API changes , Introducing ServiceClient instead of MEPClient,
- InOnlyMEPClient, InOutMEPClient, Call. (Please note that the above
- classes will be deprecated in this release.)</li>
- <li>Module versioning support , can have multiple versions of the same
- module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
- <li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly</li>
- <li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes</li>
+ <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)</li>
+ <li>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:</li>
+ <pre>
+
+<actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping></pre>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4">Tools Included In This
Release</h3>
<ol type="1">
- <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
- <li>WSDL2WS- Eclipse plugin/ Command line version/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin</li>
- <li>Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plugin/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin</li>
+ <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
+ <li>WSDL2WS- eclipse Plugin/ Command line version/ Intellij IDEA Plugin</li>
+ <li>Service Archive Wizard- eclipse Plugin/ Intellij IDEA Plugin</li>
</ol>
<h3 id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4">What's Still To
@@ -124,14 +117,13 @@
<p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if
you're interested & able!</p>
<ol type="1">
- <li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
- <li>SOAP Encoding</li>
- <li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
- <li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
- <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
- <li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services
- such as JSR 109 support</li>
- <li>Completion of interop tests</li>
+ <li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
+ <li>SOAP Encoding</li>
+ <li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
+ <li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
+ <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
+ <li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services such as JSR 109 support</li>
+ <li>Completion of Interop tests</li>
</ol>
<h2>Axis2 Background and Motivation</h2>
@@ -180,8 +172,90 @@
set of options for client-server interaction.</p>
<h2>Archived News</h2>
+<p><b>11 January 2006 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.94 Released! (<a
+href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.94</a>)</b></p>
+
+<p>This release includes the following features:</p>
+
+<p id="head-215f3945a40558f9ad055ed5b6601e8f93706558"><b>Complete
+Features List</b></p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>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.</li>
+ <li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging
+ (In-Out)</li>
+ <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
+ <li>Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module
+ and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
+ <li>Content hierarchy</li>
+ <li>Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model</li>
+ <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li>
+ <li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
+ <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08)
+ versions</li>
+ <li>WSS4J module for security</li>
+ <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
+ <li>WSDL2Java</li>
+ <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
+ <li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
+ <li>Raw XML providers</li>
+ <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
+ <li>SAAJ implementation</li>
+ <li>DOOM - <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
+ <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p id="head-5bb5aa099717d1d49642f7ae2d63ce5cf94487ad"><b>Axis2 Experimental
+Features List</b></p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request
+ levels</li>
+ <li>Server side Web Service Policy support</li>
+ <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
+ <li>Java2WSDL</li>
+ <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding
+ service using generated client.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p id="head-7dd8e783bb9e22fb00f88748855bb6e500111e12"><b>Major Changes Since
+Last Release</b></p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Fixing of memory leaks</li>
+ <li>Client API changes , Introducing ServiceClient instead of MEPClient,
+ InOnlyMEPClient, InOutMEPClient, Call. (Please note that the above
+ classes will be deprecated in this release.)</li>
+ <li>Module versioning support , can have multiple versions of the same
+ module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
+ <li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly</li>
+ <li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p id="head-83371cc3d6961295be042f584c7b74d81cca23c4"><b>Tools Included In This
+Release</b></p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
+ <li>WSDL2WS- Eclipse plugin/ Command line version/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin</li>
+ <li>Service Archive Wizard- Eclipse plugin/ IntelliJ IDEA plugin</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p id="head-599c5a50552f02ebdeb5f58ef8da289234812ca4"><b>What's Still To
+Do?</b></p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
+ <li>SOAP Encoding</li>
+ <li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
+ <li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
+ <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
+ <li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services
+ such as JSR 109 support</li>
+ <li>Completion of interop tests</li>
+</ol>
+
-<p><b>02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released! (</b> <a
+<p><b>02 December 2005 - Apache Axis2 Version 0.93 Released! (</b> <a
href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 0.93</a>)</p>
<p>Axis2 is becoming more and more stable. <a
Modified: webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/latest/userguide1.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/latest/userguide1.html?rev=384472&r1=384471&r2=384472&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/latest/userguide1.html (original)
+++ webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/latest/userguide1.html Thu Mar 9 01:33:28 2006
@@ -1,227 +1,218 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
-<html>
-<head>
- <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
- <title>Axis2 User's Guide</title>
-</head>
-
-<body lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
-<h4><a name="Axis2_User's_Guide">Axis2 User's Guide</a></h4>
-
-<p><i>Version 0.95</i></p>
-<i>User Feedback: <a
-href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a></i>
-
-<p align="right">Pages: <a href="userguide.html">Content</a>, <b>1</b>, <a href="userguide2.html">2</a>, <a href="userguide3.html">3</a>, <a
-href="userguide4.html">4</a>, <a href="userguide5.html">5</a></p>
-
-<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
-
-<p>Welcome to Axis2, the next generation of Apache Axis!!! This User's Guide
-will help you to understand what Axis2 has to offer and how to get started
-with it. We hope you will benefit from the power of Axis2.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Attention">Attention</a></h3>
-<ul>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">This User's Guide is written based on
- Axis2 standard binary distribution. (The standard binary distribution can
- be created from the source distribution using the maven goal <code>$maven
- dist-std-bin</code>). Please refer the <a
- href="installationguide.html#Download_Axis2">installation guide</a> for further
- information on the downloadables available in this release.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p>If you are new to Axis, it's highly recommended that you read <a
- href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html" target="_blank">Axis 1.x User's
- Guide</a> before you go any further in this guide.</p>
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<h3><a name="What_is_Axis2_">What is Axis2?</a></h3>
-
-<p>Axis2 is the next generation of Apache Axis. In late August 2004, during
-the Axis2 Summit held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a new architecture for Axis was
-introduced which was much more flexible, efficient and configurable. Although
-the architecture is new, some of the well established concepts from Axis 1.x
-like handlers are preserved in Axis2. Axis2 comes with many new features,
-enhancements and industry specification implementations.</p>
-
-<p>After months of continued discussion and coding in this direction, Axis2
-now delivers the following key features:</p>
-<ul>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Speed</strong> - Axis2 uses its
- own object model and StAX (Streaming API for XML) parsing to achieve
- significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Low memory foot print</strong>-
- Axis2 was designed ground-up keeping low memory foot print in mind.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>AXIOM</strong> - Axis2 comes with
- its own light-weight object model, AXIOM, for message processing which is
- extensible, high performance and developer convenient</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><a name="Hot_Deployment">Hot
- Deployment</a></strong> - Axis2 is equipped with the capability of
- deploying web service & handlers while system is up and running. In
- other words, new services can be added to the system without having to
- shut down server.Drop the required Web service archive into the services
- directory in the repository and deployment model will automatically
- deploy the service and make it available for use.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Asynchronous Web
- Services</strong> - Axis2 now supports asynchronous web services &
- asynchronous web services invocation using non-blocking clients and
- transports .</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>MEP Support</strong> - Axis2 now
- comes handy with the flexibility to support Message Exchange Patterns
- (MEPs) with in-built support for basic MEPs defined in WSDL 2.0.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Flexibility</strong> - The Axis2
- architecture gives the developer complete freedom to insert extensions
- into the engine for custom header processing, system management, or
- <em>anything else you can imagine</em>.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Stability</strong> - Axis2
- defines a set of published interfaces which change relatively slowly
- compared to the rest of Axis.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Component-oriented
- Deployment</strong> - You can easily define reusable networks of Handlers
- to implement common patterns of processing for your applications, or to
- distribute to partners.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Transport Framework</strong> - We
- have a clean and simple abstraction for integrating and using Transports
- (i.e., senders and listeners for SOAP over various protocols such as
- SMTP, FTP, message-oriented middleware, etc), and the core of the engine
- is completely transport-independent.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>WSDL support</strong> - Axis2
- supports the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl" target="_blank">Web Service Description
- Language</a>, version 1.1 and 2.0, which allows you to easily build stubs
- to access remote services, and also to automatically export
- machine-readable descriptions of your deployed services from Axis2.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Add-ons</strong> Several web
- services specifications have been incorporated including <a
- href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/" target="_blank">WSS4J</a> for security, <a
- href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/" target="_blank">Sandesha</a> for reliable
- messaging, <a href="http://ws.apache.org/kandula/" target="_blank">Kandula</a> which is
- an encapsulation of WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and
- WS-BusinessActivity.</p>
- </li>
- <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Composition and
- Extensibility</strong> - modules and phases improve support for
- composability and extensibility. Modules supports composability and is
- able to add support for new WS-* specifications in a simple and clean
- manner. They are however not <a href="#Hot_Deployment">hot deployable</a>
- as they change the overall behavior of the system.</p>
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>We hope you enjoy using Axis2. Please note that this is an open-source
-effort. If you feel the code could use some new features or fixes, please get
-involved and lend us a hand! The Axis developer community welcomes your
-participation.</p>
-
-<p>Let us know what you think!</p>
-
-<p>Please send your feedback on Axis2 to "<a
-href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a>" and make
-sure to prefix the subject of the mail with [Axis2].</p>
-
-<h3><a name="Axis2_Complete_Features_List">Axis2 Complete Features
-List</a></h3>
-<ol type="1">
- <li>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.</li>
- <li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging
- (In-Out)</li>
- <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
- <li>Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module
- and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
- <li>Content hierarchy</li>
- <li>Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model</li>
- <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li>
- <li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
- <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08)
- versions</li>
- <li>WSS4J module for security</li>
- <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
- <li>WSDL2Java</li>
- <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
- <li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
- <li>Raw XML providers</li>
- <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
- <li>SAAJ implementation</li>
- <li>DOOM - New Feature</li>
- <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code- New Feature</li>
- <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
- <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
-</ol>
-
-<h4><a name="Experimental_Features_List">Experimental Features List</a></h4>
-<ol type="1">
- <li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request
- levels</li>
- <li><a href="WS_policy.html" target="_blank">Server side Web Service Policy
- support</a></li>
- <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
- <li>Java2WSDL</li>
- <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding
- service using generated client.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<h4><a name="Major_Changes_Since_Last_Release">Major Changes Since Last
-Release</a></h4>
-<ol type="1">
- <li>Fixing of memory leaks</li>
- <li>Client API changes , Introducing ServiceClient instead of MEPClient,
- InOnlyMEPClient, InOutMEPClient, Call. (Please note that the above
- classes will be deprecated in this release.)</li>
- <li>Module versioning support , can have multiple versions of the same
- module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
- <li>Code generator improved to process multi-port WSDL's properly</li>
- <li>Packing and unpacking options for the code generated classes</li>
-</ol>
-
-<h3><a name="Tools_included_in this_Release">Tools Included In This
-Release</a></h3>
-<ol type="1">
- <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
- <li>WSDL2WS- <a href="CodegenTools-EclipsePlugin.html" target="_blank">Eclipse
- plugin</a><a>/</a><a href="CodegenToolReference.html" target="_blank">Command line
- version</a><a>/</a><a
- href="tools\idea\Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation" target="_blank">IntelliJ
- IDEA plugin</a></li>
- <li>Service Archive Wizard- <a
- href="ServiceArchiveToolReference.html" target="_blank">Eclipse plugin</a>/ <a
- href="tools\idea\Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive" target="_blank">IntelliJ
- IDEA plugin</a></li>
-</ol>
-<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi" target="_blank">Download</a> above plugins
-
-<h3><a name="What's_still_to_do_">What's Still To Do?</a></h3>
-
-<p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if
-you're interested & able!</p>
-<ol type="1">
- <li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
- <li>SOAP Encoding</li>
- <li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
- <li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
- <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
- <li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services
- such as JSR 109 support</li>
- <li>Completion of interop tests</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p align="right"><a href="userguide.html"><img
-src="images/arrow_left.gif"> Previous</a> | <a href="userguide2.html">Next <img src="images/arrow_right.gif"></a></p>
-
-Pages: <a href="userguide.html">Content</a>,
-<b>1</b>, <a href="userguide2.html">2</a>, <a href="userguide3.html"
->3</a>, <a href="userguide4.html">4</a>, <a
-href="userguide5.html">5</a></body>
-</html>
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
+<html>
+<head>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="">
+ <title>Axis2 User's Guide</title>
+</head>
+
+<body lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
+<h4><a name="Axis2_User's_Guide">Axis2 User's Guide</a></h4>
+
+<p><i>Version 0.95</i></p>
+<i>User Feedback: <a
+href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a></i>
+
+<p align="right">Pages: <a href="userguide.html">Content</a>, <b>1</b>, <a href="userguide2.html">2</a>, <a href="userguide3.html">3</a>, <a
+href="userguide4.html">4</a>, <a href="userguide5.html">5</a></p>
+
+<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
+
+<p>Welcome to Axis2, the next generation of Apache Axis!!! This User's Guide
+will help you to understand what Axis2 has to offer and how to get started
+with it. We hope you will benefit from the power of Axis2.</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Attention">Attention</a></h3>
+<ul>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">This User's Guide is written based on
+ Axis2 standard binary distribution. (The standard binary distribution can
+ be created from the source distribution using the maven goal <code>$maven
+ dist-std-bin</code>). Please refer the <a
+ href="installationguide.html#Download_Axis2">installation guide</a> for further
+ information on the downloadables available in this release.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p>If you are new to Axis, it's highly recommended that you read <a
+ href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html" target="_blank">Axis 1.x User's
+ Guide</a> before you go any further in this guide.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3><a name="What_is_Axis2_">What is Axis2?</a></h3>
+
+<p>Axis2 is the next generation of Apache Axis. In late August 2004, during
+the Axis2 Summit held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a new architecture for Axis was
+introduced which was much more flexible, efficient and configurable. Although
+the architecture is new, some of the well established concepts from Axis 1.x
+like handlers are preserved in Axis2. Axis2 comes with many new features,
+enhancements and industry specification implementations.</p>
+
+<p>After months of continued discussion and coding in this direction, Axis2
+now delivers the following key features:</p>
+<ul>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Speed</strong> - Axis2 uses its
+ own object model and StAX (Streaming API for XML) parsing to achieve
+ significantly greater speed than earlier versions of Apache Axis.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Low memory foot print</strong>-
+ Axis2 was designed ground-up keeping low memory foot print in mind.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>AXIOM</strong> - Axis2 comes with
+ its own light-weight object model, AXIOM, for message processing which is
+ extensible, high performance and developer convenient</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong><a name="Hot_Deployment">Hot
+ Deployment</a></strong> - Axis2 is equipped with the capability of
+ deploying web service & handlers while system is up and running. In
+ other words, new services can be added to the system without having to
+ shut down server.Drop the required Web service archive into the services
+ directory in the repository and deployment model will automatically
+ deploy the service and make it available for use.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Asynchronous Web
+ Services</strong> - Axis2 now supports asynchronous web services &
+ asynchronous web services invocation using non-blocking clients and
+ transports .</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>MEP Support</strong> - Axis2 now
+ comes handy with the flexibility to support Message Exchange Patterns
+ (MEPs) with in-built support for basic MEPs defined in WSDL 2.0.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Flexibility</strong> - The Axis2
+ architecture gives the developer complete freedom to insert extensions
+ into the engine for custom header processing, system management, or
+ <em>anything else you can imagine</em>.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Stability</strong> - Axis2
+ defines a set of published interfaces which change relatively slowly
+ compared to the rest of Axis.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Component-oriented
+ Deployment</strong> - You can easily define reusable networks of Handlers
+ to implement common patterns of processing for your applications, or to
+ distribute to partners.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Transport Framework</strong> - We
+ have a clean and simple abstraction for integrating and using Transports
+ (i.e., senders and listeners for SOAP over various protocols such as
+ SMTP, FTP, message-oriented middleware, etc), and the core of the engine
+ is completely transport-independent.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>WSDL support</strong> - Axis2
+ supports the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl" target="_blank">Web Service Description
+ Language</a>, version 1.1 and 2.0, which allows you to easily build stubs
+ to access remote services, and also to automatically export
+ machine-readable descriptions of your deployed services from Axis2.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Add-ons</strong> Several web
+ services specifications have been incorporated including <a
+ href="http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/" target="_blank">WSS4J</a> for security, <a
+ href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/" target="_blank">Sandesha</a> for reliable
+ messaging, <a href="http://ws.apache.org/kandula/" target="_blank">Kandula</a> which is
+ an encapsulation of WS-Coordination, WS-AtomicTransaction and
+ WS-BusinessActivity.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><strong>Composition and
+ Extensibility</strong> - modules and phases improve support for
+ composability and extensibility. Modules supports composability and is
+ able to add support for new WS-* specifications in a simple and clean
+ manner. They are however not <a href="#Hot_Deployment">hot deployable</a>
+ as they change the overall behavior of the system.</p>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>We hope you enjoy using Axis2. Please note that this is an open-source
+effort. If you feel the code could use some new features or fixes, please get
+involved and lend us a hand! The Axis developer community welcomes your
+participation.</p>
+
+<p>Let us know what you think!</p>
+
+<p>Please send your feedback on Axis2 to "<a
+href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a>" and make
+sure to prefix the subject of the mail with [Axis2].</p>
+
+<h3><a name="Axis2_Complete_Features_List">Axis2 Complete Features
+List</a></h3>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>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.</li>
+ <li>Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)</li>
+ <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li>
+ <li>Module version support , can have multiple versions of the same module and use them depending on the requirement.</li>
+ <li>Content hierarchy</li>
+ <li>Archive based deployment Model and Directory based deployment model</li>
+ <li>JWS like deployment (making Java class into Web service)</li>
+ <li>WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons</li>
+ <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions</li>
+ <li>WSS4J module for security</li>
+ <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li>
+ <li>WSDL2Java and Java2WSDL</li>
+ <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li>
+ <li>Transports supports: HTTP, SMTP, TCP, JMS</li>
+ <li>Raw XML providers</li>
+ <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li>
+ <li>SAAJ implementation</li>
+ <li>DOOM</li>
+ <li>Pack/Unpack capability for the generated code</li>
+ <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li>
+ <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li>
+ <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)- <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>AxisServlet auto start when application server get start up- <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Module dis-engagemnt support- <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+ <li>Loading module (.mar) from classpath- <span style="color: #FF0000">New</span></li>
+</ol>
+
+<h4><a name="Experimental_Features_List">Experimental Features List</a></h4>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Sessions scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport and Request levels</li>
+ <li>Server side <a href="WS_policy.html" target="_blank">Web Service Policy</a> support</li>
+ <li>?wsdl and ?xsd support</li>
+ <li>Generating ServiceClient for a given WSDL and invoke the corresponding service using generated client.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<h4><a name="Major_Changes_Since_Last_Release">Major Changes Since Last
+Release</a></h4>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Transport framework improvements (ListenerManager)</li>
+ <li>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:</li>
+ <pre>
+
+<actionMapping>MyMapping</actionMapping></pre>
+</ol>
+
+<h3><a name="Tools_included_in this_Release">Tools Included In This
+Release</a></h3>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>Axis2 Web Application (Web App)</li>
+ <li>WSDL2WS- <a href="CodegenTools-EclipsePlugin.html" target="_blank">Eclipse
+ plugin</a><a>/</a><a href="CodegenToolReference.html" target="_blank">Command line
+ version</a><a>/</a><a
+ href="tools\idea\Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#WSDL2Java_Code_Generation" target="_blank">IntelliJ
+ IDEA plugin</a></li>
+ <li>Service Archive Wizard- <a
+ href="ServiceArchiveToolReference.html" target="_blank">Eclipse plugin</a>/ <a
+ href="tools\idea\Idea_plug-in_userguide.html#Create_Service_Archive" target="_blank">IntelliJ
+ IDEA plugin</a></li>
+</ol>
+<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi" target="_blank">Download</a> above plugins
+
+<h3><a name="What's_still_to_do_">What's Still To Do?</a></h3>
+
+<p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if
+you're interested & able!</p>
+<ol type="1">
+ <li>JAX-RPC 1.1 and/or JAX-WS compliance</li>
+ <li>SOAP Encoding</li>
+ <li>Binary serialization and de-serialization support</li>
+ <li>Management Interface for Axis2</li>
+ <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li>
+ <li>Resource framework implementation (WS-RF) and Enterprise web services such as JSR 109 support</li>
+ <li>Completion of Interop tests</li>
+</ol>
+
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