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| <title>Creating Web services with the Apache Axis run-time environment</title> |
| <shortdesc>This run-time environment is for users who prefer to develop for |
| the open Apache Axis platform. It is for non-production use only. Axis is |
| the third generation of the Apache SOAP implementation. It evolved from Apache |
| SOAP to make the SOAP engine more flexible, configurable, and able to handle |
| both SOAP and the upcoming XML Protocol specification from the W3C open-source |
| effort.</shortdesc> |
| <conbody> |
| <section><title>Overview</title><p>Axis is based on JSR 101 <tm tmclass="special" |
| tmowner="Sun Microsystems, Inc." tmtype="tm" trademark="Java">Java</tm> APIs |
| for XML based RPC (also known as JAX-RPC). JSR 101 provides a single |
| interface to any XML-based RPC mechanism, including SOAP.</p><p>Web services |
| application server uses Axis within a servlet to process the incoming message, |
| extract information from the message headers, and payloads, as well as conforming |
| to the particular RPC semantics. </p><p>The level of Axis currently supported |
| is 1.0. For more information on Axis, refer to <xref format="html" href="http://xml.apache.org/axis" |
| scope="external">http://xml.apache.org/axis</xref>. The User's Guide available |
| on this site provides more in-depth information about using Web services with |
| Apache Axis. The Reading Guide lists several documents to further your understanding |
| of Axis.</p><note>The support for Axis is limited to validation that the application |
| is invoking the Axis emitters correctly. Support for other Axis issues should |
| be directed to <xref format="html" href="http://ws.apache.org/axis" scope="external">http://ws.apache.org/axis</xref></note></section> |
| </conbody> |
| <related-links> |
| <linklist><title>Related Concepts</title> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cws.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext>Web services</linktext></link> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cwsinwsa.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext>Tools for Web services development</linktext></link> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cjaxrpc.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext>JAX-RPC</linktext></link> |
| </linklist> |
| <linklist><title>Related Tasks</title> |
| <link href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/tasks/toverws.dita" scope="peer"> |
| <linktext> Developing Web services</linktext></link> |
| </linklist> |
| </related-links> |
| </concept> |
