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Posted to java-dev@axis.apache.org by ch...@apache.org on 2006/09/29 11:17:14 UTC
svn commit: r451185 - in /webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs:
1_1/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html index.html
Author: chatra
Date: Fri Sep 29 02:17:13 2006
New Revision: 451185
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=451185
Log:
more improvements
Modified:
webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html
webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/index.html
Modified: webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/webservices/axis2/trunk/java/xdocs/1_1/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html?view=diff&rev=451185&r1=451184&r2=451185
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<h2><a name="bmBP">The Big Picture</a></h2>
<p>A new architecture for Axis was introduced during the August 2004 Summit
-in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This new architecture now Axis2 is based on is more
-flexible, efficient and configurable in comparison to <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html">Axis1.x architecture</a>.
-Some well established concepts from Axis 1.x, like handlers etc., have been
-preserved in this new architecture.</p>
+in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This new architecture Axis2 is based on is more
+flexible, efficient and configurable in comparison to <a
+href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html">Axis1.x
+architecture</a>. Some well established concepts from Axis 1.x, like handlers
+etc., have been preserved in this new architecture.</p>
<p>Any architecture is a result of what that architecture should yield. The
success of an architecture should be evaluated based on the requirements
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<p>[<a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi">Download 1.1</a>]</p>
-<p>Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used <a
+<p>Apache Axis2 is the core engine for Web services. It is a complete
+re-design and re-write of the widely used <a
href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/">Apache Axis</a> SOAP stack to build on the
lessons learnt from Apache Axis.</p>
@@ -71,6 +79,13 @@
<h3><em>Why Apache Axis2:</em></h3>
+<p>A new architecture for Axis was introduced during the August 2004 Summit
+in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This new architecture Axis2 is based on is more
+flexible, efficient and configurable in comparison to <a
+href="http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/architecture-guide.html">Axis1.x
+architecture</a>. Some well established concepts from Axis 1.x, like handlers
+etc., have been preserved in this new architecture.</p>
+
<p>Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has
integrated support for the widely popular <a
href="http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html">REST style of Web
@@ -105,10 +120,95 @@
</ul>
<p>Apache Axis2 is built on <a
-href="http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/index.html">Apache AXIOm</a>, a new
+href="http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/index.html">Apache AXIOM</a>, a new
high performant, pull-based XML object model that was released two days
ago.</p>
+<p>Axis2 comes with many new features, enhancements and industry
+specification implementations. The key features offered are as follows:</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, highly performant and is 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 the system is up and running.
+ In other words, new services can be added to the system without having to
+ shut down the server. Simply drop the required Web service archive into
+ the services directory in the repository and the 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, and
+ <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 Web Service Description Language, version <a
+ href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl">1.1</a> and <a
+ href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/">2.0</a>, 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
+ (Apache Rampart), <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 new features or fixes, or the
+documentation can be improved, please get involved and lend us a hand! The
+Axis developer community welcomes your participation.</p>
+
+<p>Let us know what you think! Send your feedback on Axis2 to "<a
+href="mailto:axis-user@ws.apache.org">axis-user@ws.apache.org</a>". Make sure
+to prefix the subject of the mail with [Axis2].</p>
+
<h2>Features of Axis2 Latest Version</h2>
<h3>Programming Model</h3>
@@ -122,7 +222,7 @@
with versioning support</li>
<li><a href="1_1/userguide1.html#Hot_Deployment">Hot deployment</a></li>
<li>WS-Policy driven code generation extensions</li>
- <li>Flexible service lifecyle model</li>
+ <li>Flexible service life cycle model</li>
<li>Support for querying service's WSDL (using ?wsdl), schema (using ?xsd)
and policies (using ?policy)</li>
</ul>
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