Dennis, Axis2 is not a dead project. It is a matured project, and is quite stable now. There are hundreds of thousands of downloads per month from the main site itself. The download figures from mirrors will be much larger.
http://people.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/projects/axis2.html#Downloads-N1008F So the answer is no. Of course there are areas we can improve on, but Axis2 is certainly not dying. Azeez On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Dennis Sosnoski<d...@sosnoski.com> wrote: > I'm starting to wonder about the health of the Axis2 project, and thought it > might be useful to initiate a discussion on this topic. > > The 1.5 release of Axis2 took 8 months from initial proposal to when it > finally escaped out the door, and the results frankly don't seem to reflect > the amount of elapsed time. Even the Javadocs are messed up in the release > (as well as on the website). One of the main features headlined in the > release notes is the transport refactoring - but the only transport > available is HTTP, since there seems to be no inclination to get out a > release of the new commons transports (which IMHO shows why splitting these > off into a separate project was a bad idea). There isn't even an entry in > the WS-Commons page at http://ws.apache.org/commons/projects-overview.html > for the transports, so it's hard to tell the state of this project. There's > also no indication of when we'll have a Rampart release to go along with > Axis2 1.5. > > I realize a lot of the Axis2 and Rampart work is being led by WSO2, and > perhaps the people in that organization have a plan. But if that's the case, > I'd appreciate it if they could make it public for the rest of us to know > what's going on. > > Thanks, > > - Dennis > > -- > Dennis M. Sosnoski > Java XML and Web Services > Axis2 Training and Consulting > http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz > Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117 > > -- Thanks Afkham Azeez Blog: http://afkham.org Developer Portal: http://www.wso2.org WSAS Blog: http://wso2wsas.blogspot.com Company: http://wso2.com GPG Fingerprint: 643F C2AF EB78 F886 40C9 B2A2 4AE2 C887 665E 0760
