News

NEWS (April 22, 2006): Axis 1.4 Final is now available!

NEWS (October 5, 2005): Axis 1.3 Final is now available!

NEWS (June 15, 2005): Axis 1.2.1 Final is now available!

NEWS (May 04, 2005): Axis 1.2 Final is now available!

NEWS (April 09, 2005): Axis C++ 1.5 Final is now available!

NEWS (March 01, 2005): Axis 1.2 RC3 is now available!

NEWS (February 08, 2005): Axis C++ 1.5 Alpha is now available!

NEWS (December 16, 2004): Axis C++ 1.4 Final is now available!

NEWS (December 03, 2004): Axis C++ 1.4 Alpha is now available!

NEWS (November 16, 2004): Axis 1.2 RC2 is now available!

NEWS (October 29, 2004): Axis C++ 1.3 Final is now available!

NEWS (September 30, 2004): Axis 1.2 RC1 is now available!

NEWS (September 15, 2004): Axis C++ 1.3 Beta is now available!

Other news at the Apache Software Foundation is here:

Introduction

Apache Axis is an implementation of the SOAP ("Simple Object Access Protocol") submission to W3C.

From the draft W3C specification:

SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses.

This project is a follow-on to the Apache SOAP project.

Please see the Reference Library for a list of technical resources that should prove useful.

Axis 1.2 and beyond

Axis 1.1 has proven itself to be a reliable and stable base on which to implement Java Web services. There is a very active user community and there are many companies who use Axis for Web services support in their products.

For Axis 1.2, we are focusing on our document/literal support to better address the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 and JAX-RPC 1.1 specifications. And we are fixing as many bug as possible.

We can always use your help. Here are some links to help you help us:

Credits

The Axis Development Team