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| <h1>Welcome to Apache Axis2/C</h1> |
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| <p>Axis2/C is an effort to implement <a |
| href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/0_93/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html">Axis2 |
| architecture</a>, in C. Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume Web |
| Services.</p> |
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| <h2>Background and Motivation</h2> |
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| <p>While Axis 2 Java is moving closer to 1.0, this implementation provides |
| another language option to consume and provide web services. Performance |
| being its forte, Axis2/C is looking at broadening its horizan by providing |
| extensions to popular open source scripting languages and web browsers. </p> |
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| <h2>Latest Release</h2> |
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| <p><b>Milestone Release 0.5 - (9th March 2006) (<a |
| href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis2/c/M0.5/">Download |
| M-0.5</a>)</b></p> |
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| <h4>Key Features</h4> |
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| <li>AXIOM, an XML object model working on StAX (Streaming API for XML) |
| parsing optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 Messages.</li> |
| <li>Support for Request Response Messaging (In-Out)</li> |
| <li>Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model</li> |
| <li>Directory based deployment model</li> |
| <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) |
| versions</li> |
| <li>Improved and user friendly Client API</li> |
| <li>Transports supports: HTTP |
| <ul> |
| <li>Axis2/C server</li> |
| <li>Apache integration module</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Raw XML providers</li> |
| <li>Numerous bug fixes since last release</li> |
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| <h4>Major Changes Since the Last Release</h4> |
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| <li>Improving code quality by fixing memory leaks and reviewing the |
| code.</li> |
| <li>Apache2 integration.</li> |
| <li>More samples and tests(Including Plugfest testing code to interoperate |
| with Microsoft services)</li> |
| <li>Initial documentations(User Guide, Developer Guide, Installation |
| Guide)</li> |
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| <h4>What's Still To Do?</h4> |
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| <p>See list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if |
| you're interested & able!</p> |
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| <li>Management Interface for Axis2/C</li> |
| <li>Implementation of other Transports.</li> |
| <li>Code generation and Dynamic Invocation</li> |
| <li>Hot Deployment of Services</li> |
| <li>Completion of interop tests</li> |
| <li>Support for MTOM/ MIME/ SwA</li> |
| <li>Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)</li> |
| <li>REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support</li> |
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