Just wanted to report that I gave the 1.2 beta a shot and it works great after some light testing. I found one runtime bug I posted about here around sendXsiTypes not being respected, but other than that it seems to work smoothly for me. Document/literal support is much improved (where the sendXsiTypes issue is moot).
The 1.2 beta isn't announced on the site, but you can get it here: http://archive.apache.org/dist/ws/axis/1_2beta/ There are only 7 open bugs filed specifically against 1.2 beta. I'm not sure if the other 100+ open Axis bugs apply to 1.2 beta. You may be able to see the 1.2beta specific bugs here: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10383
