Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation Guide
3. Add-on Modules
4. Application Server Specific Configuration Guide
5. Quick Start Guide
6. User's Guide
7. Advanced User's Guide
8. OpenAPI REST Services Guide
   • 7.1 Getting Started with OpenAPI
   • 7.2 OpenAPI Integration Features
   • 7.3 Complete Sample Application
   • 7.4 Interactive Swagger UI
   • 7.5 Advanced Enterprise OpenAPI Features
   • 7.6 JPA/Hibernate Schema Generation
     • 7.6.1 JPA Annotation Mode (@Entity, @Column, @ManyToOne)
     • 7.6.2 Hibernate XML Mapping Mode (.hbm.xml)
     • 7.6.3 Read vs Write Schema Generation
     • 7.6.4 Custom Audit Annotation Support
9. Configuration Guide
10. Web Administrator's Guide
11. Architecture Guide
12. JAXWS Guide
13. POJO Guide
14. Spring Guide
15. Spring Boot Starter
    • 12a.0 Deployment Model (WAR + Embedded Tomcat)
    • 12a.1 Quick Start (Single Dependency)
    • 12a.2 How AxisServlet Works (SOAP vs JSON)
    • 12a.3 Configuration Properties
    • 12a.4 SOAP Mode vs JSON Mode
    • 12a.5 What Gets Autoconfigured
    • 12a.6 What Stays in Your Application
    • 12a.7 OpenAPI and MCP Support
    • 12a.8 Migration from Manual Configuration
    • 12a.9 Container Support
16. ModulesGuide
17. ADB Data Binding
    • 14.1 Architecture
    • 14.2 Advanced Features
    • 14.3 Code Generation Integration
    • 14.4 Tweaking
18. Advanced
    • 16.1 AXIOM Based Service
    • 16.2 AXIOM Based Client
19. Attachments/MTOM Guide
20. Transports
    • 18.1 HTTP Transport sender (HTTP/1.1)
    • 18.2 HTTP/2 Overview — start here (architecture, framework comparison, why Axis2 is different)
    • 18.3 HTTP/2 Simplified Configuration (minimal axis2.xml — 2 parameters)
    • 18.4 Streaming JSON Formatter + Field Selection (64 KB flush, ?fields=)
    • 18.4a HTTP/2 Java Client (standalone HttpClient 5, buffered + streaming)
    • 18.5 WildFly HTTP/2 | Tomcat HTTP/2 (container-specific)
    • 18.6 HTTP/2 Transport Module Reference (transport-h2 internals)
    • 18.7 HTTP servlet transport
    • 18.8 JMS Transport
    • 18.9 TCP Transport
    • 18.10 Mail Transport
    • 18.11 UDP Transport
    • 18.13 Custom Transport
21. WS-Policy Support
22. REST Support (See also: OpenAPI REST Services Guide)
23. JSON support
    • 23.1JSON support with Mapped/Badgerfish formats
    • 23.2Pure JSON Support
      • Native Approach
      • XML Stream API Base Approach
      • User Guide
      • JSON and REST with Spring Boot User's Guide
    • 23.3 OpenAPI REST with JSON Support
      • Automatic OpenAPI 3.0.1 Generation
      • Complete JSON REST API Examples
      • Interactive API Testing with Swagger UI
      • Advanced Enterprise Features
    • 23.4 JSON-RPC MCP Integration Guide
      • MCP Catalog Endpoint (/openapi-mcp.json)
      • Catalog Schema: _meta and per-tool fields
      • Axis2 JSON-RPC Envelope Format
      • Two-Phase Bearer Token Authentication
      • Error Handling: Correlation ID Pattern
      • Not Implemented / Limitations
      • Streaming Formatter for Large MCP Tool Responses
      • Python MCP Client Example
    • 23.5 MCP Architecture — Multi-Protocol Design
      • Current State
      • Track A: OpenAPI-Driven MCP Bridge
      • Track B: Native MCP Transport
      • Security Architecture (mTLS + X.509)
      • Key Design Decisions
    • 23.6 Streaming JSON Message Formatter
      • Overview
      • Problem: Large Responses and Reverse Proxies
      • Configuration (axis2.xml / services.xml)
      • Services That Benefit (BigDataH2Service, FinancialBenchmarkService)
      • Axis2/C Equivalent (ap_rflush)
    • 23.7 MCP Examples — Financial Services Benchmarks
      • Live Examples (WildFly 32)
      • Demo 1: Stress Test
      • Demo 2: Pre-Trade Risk
      • Demo 3: Convergence
      • Full Performance Summary (C vs Java)
    • 23.8 Offset/Limit Pagination for JSON-RPC Services
      • 23.8.1 Overview: PaginatedResponse and PaginationRequest
      • 23.8.2 Wire Format (data + pagination metadata)
      • 23.8.3 Service Integration (DAO offset/limit pattern)
      • 23.8.4 Frontend Patterns (virtual scroll, page controls, infinite scroll)
      • 23.8.5 Safety: maxLimit clamping and input validation
24. Exposing CORBA Services as Web Services
25. Guide to using EJB Provider in Axis2
26. Command Line Tools
27. Tools/Plug-ins
    • 25.1 Code Generator Tool - Command Line and Ant Task
    • 25.2 AAR Maven2 Plug-in
    • 25.6 Java2WSDL Maven2 Plug-in
    • 25.7 WSDL2Code Maven2 Plug-in
28. Migration Guide (from Axis1)
29. Design Notes
    • 27.1 RPC Support