[ANN] Axis2 0.92 Released

[Eran Chinthaka <ch...@opensource.lk>]

You can download the release from:

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi


    What's in this release?

This release includes the following features:

    * Complete XML infoset support for AXIOM
    * AXIOM, a SOAP specific streaming XML infoset model for SOAP
      1.1/1.2 messages
    * Support for one-way messaging and request response messaging
    * Modules, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
    * Archives based deployment model
    * WSDL2Java code generation tool for stub and skeltons
    * XML Beans based data binding support
    * Support for WS-Addressing, both the submission and final versions
    * Client API
    * REST web service support
    * HTTP transport support
    * SMTP transport support
    * TCP transport support
    * MTOM/SWA attachments support
    * SAAJ implementation
    * WS-Security support using WSS4J
    * Support for context hierarchy serialization
    * and numerous bug fixes after 0.91 release

The release include following tools

   1. Admin Web App
   2. WSDL2Java, eclipse Plugin/Command line version
   3. Service Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
   4. Module Archive Wizard, eclipse Plugin
   5. Service Archive Wizard, IntelliJ IDEA Plugin


    What's still to do?

Please see a list of what we think needs doing - and please consider 
helping out if you're interested & able!

    * SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 validation
    * JAX-RPC 1.1/2.0 compliance
    * Implementation of other transports. e.g. JMS..
    * WSDL Generation
    * Axis2 Databinding implementation

Axis2 is taking shape, this 0.92 release is a glimpse of 1.0 that should 
be comming soon. If you happen to have vision of how the next generation 
of the Web Service should be, and like to contribute to Apache Axis2 
please help us to shape the Apache Axis2. Any contribution in the form 
of Coding, testing, submiting improvements to the documentation, and 
reporting bugs are always welcome.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2!

-- The Axis Development Team