Apache CXF: An Open-Source Services Framework

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

In short this is the very good alternate of Apache axis.

Important Links:
User Guide for CXF
          http://cxf.apache.org/docs/index.html
Download
         http://cxf.apache.org/download.html