Well, using Axis 1.1 to communicate with the Axis2 web service works just fine. I generated stubs using Axis 1.1, created a Client class and tested it. Axis 1.1 API The API does not offer the same functions as my previous Axis 1.4, in particular in the ParameterDesc class, where you can specify whether the parameters of the web service method are nillable or their minOccurs, but my calls seemed to work fine.
In general, this can be done using (however) the basic WSDL definitions, however, I'm not sure if Axis2 uses new features that Axis 1.1 cannot use due to the outdated Axis 1.1 API ..
Oh, and one final note, I needed to use SOAP 1.1 for my request. I am not 100% sure because my answers came back as SOAP 1.2, but there you have it.
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