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://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/download.cgi | |
Key Features | |
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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 | |
22. HTTP KeepAlive support. | |
23. HTTP session handling. | |
Major Changes Since Last Release | |
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1. Preformance improvements to guththila parser. | |
2. HTTP Session support | |
3. HTTP Keep Alive support | |
4. Improvments to Axiom/C | |
5. Many bug fixes. | |
We welcome your early feedback on this implementation. | |
Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C !!! | |
-- Apache Axis2/C Team -- | |