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Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.1.0
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
* Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
* Basic HTTP Authentication
* libcurl based client transport
4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08)
versions, implemented as a module
6. MTOM/XOP support
7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has
complete XML infoset support
8. XML parser abstraction
* Libxml2 wrapper
* Guththila pull parser support
9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying
services and modules
10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime
(configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information
(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
12. Message receiver abstraction
* Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL
(based on Java tool)
* Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
14. Transport proxy support
15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
16. Comprehensive documentation
* Axis2/C Manual
17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side
Major Changes Since Last Release
1. WS-Policy implementation
2. TCP Transport
3. Improvements to Guththila parser to improve performance
4. Improvements to Java tool, WSDL2C, that generates C code
5. Basic HTTP Authentication
6. Memory leak fixes
7. Many bug fixes
We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.
Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C
-- Apache Axis2/C Team --