I've always said that Gump was made to help get people to talk to one another. We have another instance of it today. A change was made yesterday which will affect UDDI4J. See http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/gump/latest/uddi4j.html for details.
One perspective is that Axis in in alpha and people shouldn't rely on our interfaces being stable. Another is that Axis's early adoptors are our best friends and we should be aware and accomodating. My preference would be to add this property back and deprecate it. - Sam Ruby