Kevin, Have you read the architecture guide [1] (referenced from the Axis home page) for starters? You may find an area that you'd like to explore further by starting there. If you do spend time understanding an area, please send a patch to the architecture guide to this list and if it's good, I'll commit it.
In general, we need to cut the time that newcomers (and oldcomers!) spend reverse engineering the design out of the code. That's why I'm looking for proposals to improve the structure after Axis v1.0 is complete. See the proposals directory (e.g. [2]) on cvs. Glyn [1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/xml-axis/java/docs/architecture-guide.html [2] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-axis/proposals/arch/
