EAServer 5.3 now supports Axis 1.2 final release. It is a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) engine—a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, and others.
Axis makes EAServer fully compliant to Java API for XML-Based Remote Procedure Call (JAX-RPC) and SOAP with Attachment API for Java (SAAJ) from Sun.
The Axis 1.2 delivers the following key features:
Speed Axis uses Simple API for XML (SAX) parsing to achieve greater speed than earlier versions of Apache SOAP.
Flexibility The Axis architecture gives the developer complete freedom to insert extensions into the engine for custom header processing and system management.
Stability Axis defines a set of published interface, which change gradually compared to the rest of Axis.
Component-oriented deployment You can easily define reusable networks of Handlers to implement common patterns of processing your applications, or to distribute to partners.
Transport framework Axis has a clean and simple concept for designing transports, and the core of engine is completely transport-independent.
Web Services Description Language(WSDL) Axis supports the WSDL version 1.1, which allows you to easily build stubs to access remote services and also to automatically export machine-readable descriptions of your deployed services from Axis.
