I believe Axis 1.x is going to continue to be very important to many people as Axis2 has stated as non-goals various things (like a "complete" Axis specific data binding, full rpc/encoded support, etc) that the world still needs.
There have been statements along the lines of "if you need that, why wouldn't you use Axis1" made by some Axis2 folks (cough, Sanjiva, cough). :-) Glen and I are doing our best to nudge the active developers toward supporting most (all?) of the stuff that Axis1 does. I for one would like to *replace* my use of Axis with Axis2 and not lose compatibility in my product, but get all the good stuff (WS-Security, WS-Addressing, a decent type mapping system, really good doc/lit everything, a less twitchy array deserializer, etc, etc). So don't expect any serious new feature development or re-architecture to happen on Axis1. But also don't expect Axis2 to be a drop in replacement for Axis1. Did that help? Maybe not. :-} -- Tom Jordahl -----Original Message----- From: local-underground [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Axis2] are Axis1 and Axis2 going to coexist ? Quick question, is the plan to discontinue Axis1 work now that Axis 1.3 has been released? Are all efforts being focused on Axis2 now or are both projects going to continue on side by side? thanks chris __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com
