ANNOUNCE: Apache Axis alpha 2 now available

[Glen Daniels <gd...@macromedia.com>]

Hi all!

[Background : Axis is a new open-source Java SOAP engine from Apache]

Just a quick note to let you know that the next "official" release of Axis,
alpha 2, is now available from http://xml.apache.org/axis/ in both
source-only and binary forms.

The big news: this release adds limited WSDL functionality to Axis,
including the ability to automatically generate browser-accessible WSDL for
deployed services on the fly, and a Wsdl2java utility for building Java
stubs and/or skeletons for services described by WSDL documents.

There have also been a number of bug fixes and new features, including log4j
integration for debugging/logging, support for in/out and out parameters,
and a preliminary EJB provider for exposing stateless session beans as Web
Services.

Please try it out if you have a chance, and let the team know what you
think.  Thanks!

Namaste,
--Glen