| Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C | |
| version 1.7.0. | |
| You can download this release from http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi | |
| Key Features | |
| ============ | |
| 1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and | |
| request response messaging (In-Out) | |
| 2. Client APIs : Easy to use service client API and | |
| more advanced operation client API | |
| 3. Transports supported : HTTP | |
| * Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server | |
| * Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side | |
| * IIS module for server side. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7. | |
| * Client transport with ability to enable SSL support | |
| * Basic HTTP Authentication | |
| * Digest HTTP Authentication | |
| * libcurl based client transport | |
| * CGI interface | |
| 4. Transports supported : HTTPS | |
| * HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL | |
| 5. Transports supported : TCP | |
| * for both client and server side | |
| 6. Transports supported : AMQP | |
| * AMQP Transport implementation using Apache Qpid | |
| * Available only in Linux platforms. | |
| * At an experimental stage. Please refer the INSTALL file to build this. | |
| 7. Transport proxy support (HTTP) | |
| * Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest) | |
| 8. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model. | |
| 9. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and | |
| final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module. | |
| 10. MTOM/XOP support. | |
| 11. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; | |
| This has complete XML infoset support. | |
| 12. XPath support for Axiom XML Object model | |
| 13. XML parser abstraction | |
| * Libxml2 wrapper | |
| * Guththila pull parser support | |
| 14. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying | |
| services and modules | |
| 15. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime | |
| (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages) | |
| 16. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic | |
| Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to | |
| each level of description hierarchy) | |
| 17. Message receiver abstraction | |
| * Inbuilt raw XML message receiver | |
| 18. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given | |
| WSDL (based on Java tool) | |
| * Axis Data Binding (ADB) support | |
| 19. REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE | |
| * Support for RESTful Services | |
| 20. Comprehensive documentation | |
| * Axis2/C Manual | |
| 21. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension | |
| Major Changes Since Last Release | |
| ================================ | |
| 1. XPath support for Axiom XML object model | |
| 2. CGI support | |
| 3. Improvements to MTOM to send, receive very large attachments | |
| 4. Improvements to AMQP transport | |
| 5. Many bug fixes. | |
| 6. Memory leak fixes | |
| We welcome your early feedback on this implementation. | |
| Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C !!! | |
| -- Apache Axis2/C Team -- | |