The Apache XML Project have released Apache SOAP 2.0, an updated version of the Java SOAP toolkit originally contributed from IBM's SOAP4J software.

This version includes the following changes:

• A serializer for Vectors and Enumerations
• An array of bytes (i.e. byte[]) will now be serialized into a SOAP-ENC:base64 type.
• Addition of source distribution
• Restructured documentatiom
• A new 'soap' webapp, which provides access to the web-based admin client, and the rpcrouter servlet.

Apache SOAP is available for download in both source and binary form from the Apache XML distribution web site.