# Welcome to Apache Axis2 version 1.4.1

### 13-08-2008

    Axis2 1.4.1 release mainly fixes a security vulnerability in Axis2 1.4.

    Downloads are available at:
        http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

    Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used
    Apache Axis engine and is a more efficient, more scalable, more modular
    and more XML-oriented Web services framework. It is carefully designed to
    support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend its
    functionality for features such as security and reliability.

    Modules supporting WS-Security/Secure-Conversation (Apache Rampart),
    WS-Trust (Apache Rahas), WS-Reliable Messaging (Apache Sandesha) and
    WS-Eventing (Apache Savan) will be available soon after the Apache Axis2
    1.4.1 release. Please see these projects' own sites for further information.

    Known Issues and Limitations in 1.4.1 Release:
    - Please see JIRA

    We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a
    satisfying experienced user experience with this release. We welcome any
    and all feedback at:
        axis-user@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
        axis-dev@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
        http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2

    Thank you for your interest in Apache Axis2!

    The Axis2 Development Team
    http://ws.apache.org/axis2/

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    Features of Apache Axis2:

    Programming Model
       - Simple XML-centric client API with full WSDL and policy support
       - Support for POJO and Spring services and clients
       - Support for any message exchange pattern (MEP)
       - Synchronous and asynchronous programming model
       - Archived service deployment model supporting full service
         encapsulation with versioning support
       - Archived module deployment model supporting controlled
         extensibility with versioning support
       - Hot deployment
       - WS-Policy driven code generation extensions
       - Flexible service life cycle model
       - Automatic support for POX (REST) style invocation of services
       - Support for querying service's WSDL (with ?wsdl), schema (with
         ?xsd) and policies (with ?policy)

    Supported Specifications
       - SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
       - Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)
       - XML Optimized Packaging (XOP)
       - SOAP with Attachments
       - WSDL 1.1, including both SOAP and HTTP bindings
       - WS-Addressing submission and 1.0
       - WS-Policy
       - SAAJ 1.1

    Transports
       - HTTP
       - SMTP
       - JMS
       - TCP

    Supported Data Bindings
       - Axis Data Binding (ADB)
       - XMLBeans
       - JibX
       - JaxBRI (Experimental)

    Tools
       - WSDL2Java: Generate Java stubs and skeletons from a WSDL document.
       - Java2WSDL: Generate a WSDL document from a Java class.
       - Eclipse Plugins
       - IntelliJ Idea Plugins
       - Maven2 Plugins
       - Web application for administering Apache Axis2

    Bugs marked as Resolved/Fixed after 1.4 Release:

    AXIS2-3821 JMS binding details are not included in the generated wsdl (?wsdl)
    AXIS2-3529 Axis2 server responds with Http 200 instead of 202 for the request of a dual channel invocation
    AXIS2-3916 ADB does not handles the daylight saving times
    AXIS2-3917 Out bound binding message is not set correctly
    AXIS2-3958 ConcurrentModificationException in AxisConfiguration
    AXIS2-3942 Binding operations are not added for Modules having module operations
    AXIS2-3935 Faults in the binding section od WSDL2 should be fault and not outfault
    AXIS2-3859 If a service is deployed using WSDL 2.0 the genarated ?wsdl2 does not show the endpoints
    AXIS2-3870 Memory Leak using ServiceClient
    AXIS2-3950 Message level policies not picked up by Codegen
    AXIS2-3907 Message level policy not serialized correctly in wsdl 1.1
    AXIS2-3930 Missing policy reference serialization in AxisService2WSDL11
    AXIS2-3913 Multiple policies not serialized correctly at service level (as portType PolicyURIs attribute)
    AXIS2-3819 Parameter ordering screws up in the genarated WSDL when the original WSDL has multiple message parts
    AXIS2-3915 Policies attached using the wsp:PolicyURIs attribute are not included in the code generated Stub
    AXIS2-3936 Private assertions are not filtered in WSDL 2.0
    AXIS2-3914 Remove servlet-api-2.3.jar from axis2.war
    AXIS2-3905 Requests coming through the old EPR are not dispatched to a binding
    AXIS2-3961 The endpoint address for a JMS endpoint appears as null in the WSDL
    AXIS2-3887 The servlet transport does not set the HTTP response code to 500 when a SOAP fault is returned (unless an exception was thrown)
    AXIS2-3903 rfc-2822 issues with Mail transport
    AXIS2-3877 whttp:locations do not take into the account correct endpoint urls of the form service.endpoint name
    AXIS2-3908 Prevent StackOverFlowError in AxisServlet
    AXIS2-3920 Allow to disable HTTP binding at service level using a parameter in services.xml
    AXIS2-3909 icu4j.jar packaged in the axis2.war contains a corrupt class file