Does Axis2 provide much better performance than Axis 1.X?

[ma...@nordea.com]

Hi,

I read somewhere that Axis2 provides better performance comparing to
Axis 1.X due to the introduction of StAX XML parsing. Based some tests,
I can see that for large XML document Axis2 is 5 to 10 times faster than
Axis 1.X. I'm a bit confused here since Axis1.X uses SAX parser which
should be at least as fast as StAX parser, so why