From: Srinath perera <hemapani@apache.org>
Reply-To: hemapani@apache.org
To: announce@apache.org
Date: Jun 7, 2005 4:18 PM
Subject: [ANN]AXIS2-M2 released

The Apache Axis2 Team is pleased to announce the second milestone
release of Apache Axis2.

You can download the releases from:
http://cvs.apache.org/dist/axis/v2.0-M2/axis2-M2-src.zip
http://cvs.apache.org/dist/axis/v2.0-M2/axis2-M2-bin.zip

This milestone release has the following features:
* AXIOM, a SOAP specific streaming XML infoset model for SOAP 1.1 &
1.2 Messages
* Modules, the mechanism for extending the SOAP processing model
* Support for WS-Addressing (as a module)
* Support for one-way messaging
* Support for request response messaging
* Hot deployment of Web services and Module deployment based on
archived modules
* WSDL code generation tool for stubs and skeletons (without
data binding for M2)
* HTTP transport support
* SMTP transport support
* TCP transport support

Axis2 is taking shape and this M2 release is only a glimpse of what is
to be expected in the future. If you have a vision of how the next
generation of Web services middleware should be, and like to contribute
to Axis2, please join us at axis-dev@ws.apache.org. Any contribution in
the form of coding, testing, submitting improvements to the
documentation, and reporting bugs is always welcome.

More information about Axis2 is available from the Axis2 home:
http://ws.apache.org/axis2

-- The Axis2 Development Team