While was officially announced on April 22, 2018 , you won't find a single pre-built axis2-1.7.9.jar file. Instead, Axis2 is distributed as a complete framework containing over 80 JAR files.
All official releases are at (not the main mirror system): axis2 1.7 9 jar download
Axis2 1.7.9 still contains class files with @version $Rev: 123456 $ placeholders from 2006 — the build process never replaced them. This makes version verification via class inspection impossible. While was officially announced on April 22, 2018
<dependency> <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId> <artifactId>axis2-kernel</artifactId> <version>1.7.9</version> </dependency> axis2 1.7 9 jar download