Apache Axis2/C Team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.3.0
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
          * Digest HTTP Authentication
          * libcurl based client transport

   4. Transports supported: HTTPS
          * HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL

   5. Transports supported: TCP
          * for both client and server side

   6. Transport proxy support (HTTP)
          * Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest)

   7. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model.

   8. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, 
      implemented as a module.

   9. MTOM/XOP support.

  10. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; 
      This has complete XML infoset support.

  11. XML parser abstraction
          * Libxml2 wrapper
          * Guththila pull parser support

  12. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying 
      services and modules

  13. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of 
      Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)

  14. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic 
      Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to each level of 
      description hierarchy)

  15. Message receiver abstraction
          * Inbuilt raw XML message receiver

  16. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given 
      WSDL (based on Java tool)
          *  Axis Data Binding (ADB) support

  17. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE
          *  Support for RESTful Services

  18. Comprehensive documentation
          * Axis2/C Manual
  19. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension


Major Changes Since Last Release.
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   1. Fixed a bug on version numbering
   2. List Axis2/C dependencies licensing in LICENSE file
   3. Add relevant copyright notices to NOTICE file
   4. Digest Authentication Support
   5. Proxy Authentication Support
   6. Enhanced REST support
   7. Ability to insert xml declaration on outgoing payloads
   8. MTOM support with libcurl
   9. Improvements to TCPMon Tool
  10. Improvements to Test Coverage
  11. Improvements to API docs
  12. Improvements to CA certificate validation mechanisms on SSL Transport
  13. Improvements to Neethi
  14. Fixed issue in HTTP GET on mod_axis2
  15. Major Improvements to Guththila Parser
  16. Improvements to libcurl based sender
  17. Creation of a FAQ list
  18. Improvements to Axis2/C documentation
  19. Added Documentation on Archive Based Deployment
  20. Fixes for IIS module
  21. Removed dependency in util for the Axis2/C core
  22. Ability to access transport headers at the service level (for RESTful services)
  23. uint64_t and int64_t support at util layer and codegen level
  24. Removed zlib dependencies when Archive Based Deployment model is disabled
  25. Signal Handling in Windows
  26. Removed over 99% of the warnings found on Windows
  27. Increased build speed on Windows with nmake.
  28. Improvements to Windows build system
  29. Extensions to client API to support HTTP/Proxy Authentication
  30. Memory leak fixes
  31. Many bug fixes

We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.
Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C

-- Apache Axis2/C Team --