Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > > This project is not dead, however, its been lying dormant > waiting for Axis to complete. Apache Axis is the designated > follow-on for Apache SOAP, but its running horribly behind > schedule (like 6+ months already). I would like to gather > up support and release a Apache SOAP 2.3 soon capturing all > the updates that have gone in since the 2.2 release. We would > also need to clear up the buzilla queue.
"horribly" ;-) Axis made a strategic decision to support the emerging JAX RPC API's. JCP rules prevent Axis from being labeled final until this JSR is complete. Meanwhile, some big companies (take a wild guess which ones ;-)) are basing their product plans on this codebase and investing heavily in it's development. There even has been a toolkit based on it released. > If Axis does release a stable, migratable 1.0 within 3-6 > months then that will be the last release of Apache SOAP. There is no reason to preclude the possibility of releases of Apache SOAP 3, 6 or even 12 months *AFTER* Axis is released. - Sam Ruby
