Hi folks:

After *much* too long, the Axis team would like to announce the release
of Axis 1.2 final. You can get it at:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis/1_2/ (if your favorite
mirror doesn't have it yet try another, it's propagating now)

A few words about this release -

* A LOT of things have been cleaned up/fixed since 1.1, but 1.2 is not
yet a perfect beast. We know there are still issues that, although they
didn't block this release, are important to our user base. We will be
working to resolve these in the near term, which brings us to...

* This took way too much time. We will (for the remainder of Axis 1.X's
lifetime and hopefully all of Axis 2.0's...) be focusing much more
aggressively on the "release early and often" mantra. Expect to see
more fixes and more official releases near term.

* Thanks to EVERYONE who submitted bug reports, patches, and
(especially) good, concise test cases. Without your help we wouldn't
have been able to make half the progress we did.

* As always, please send questions/comments to axis-user@...,
and development-related issues to axis-dev@.... Issues may be
checked and filed at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS

Onwards to 1.Next...

Thanks,
--Glen
on behalf of the Axis team