Apache Axis2 Reviews & Product Details

Easy to use.

Fast as it can be.

Easy for development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very complex structure and need a few hours to troubleshoot a request.

It wasn't compilable for the first time.

Unnecessary library was referenced but not used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it has support for uncommon webservice standards unlike axis1 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont dislike, i just prefer apache cxf Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache Axis 2 is a library used to create web services over SOAP which was supported by the first release as well, but this version supports REST web services also. This library is used to create modular and extendible web services, which can be extended by using plugin modules. The SOAP web services are implemented using WSDL XML files and REST style is implemented using HTTP based methods and type of data. Apache Axis 2 also supports asynchronous web services which is based on messages, which on invocation does not wait for results, the message is queued and resolved later while the invocation returns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Over all the library is good but one thing is that there are not yet many users of the Apache Axis 2, due to which there is not much community interaction. Restful APIs are already provided by J2EE libraries which are used extensively by users due to which Axis 2 is not much adopted. Also for asynchronous APIs, JMS and BEA Web logic is used which are present since long time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A lot of improvements over Axis. It handles much more modern constructs and has a cleaner dependency tree than Axis. Better supported, IMHO Also handles REST interfaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Documentation is OK, but can be tricky to de-tangle responses for Axis vs Axis 2. They are NOT connected products, even though the names would imply so. There were some configurations that were not possible (which were understandable but required me to make changes to the library for an integration with a weird vendor set up. ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use of this framework. One just need to include the JAR in the project and then create the stubs, skeletons for the web services they want to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's really a powerful framework for Web services, nothing much to dislike. But sometimes error messages are not self sufficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.