04 May 2006 - Apache Axis2 1.0 Released The Apache Axis2 Development Team is very proud to announce that Apache Axis2 1.0 has been released. Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack to build on the lessons learnt from Apache Axis. Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has integrated support for the widely popular REST