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| <h2>Welcome to Apache Axis2/C</h2> |
| <p>Apache Axis2/C is a Web services engine implemented in the C programming language. It is based on the extensible and flexible <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_2/Axis2ArchitectureGuide.html" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Axis2 architecture</a>. Apache Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume WebServices. It has been implemented with portability and ability to embed in mind, hence could be used as a Web services enabler in other software.</p> |
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| <p>Apache Axis2/C supports <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">SOAP 1.1</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">SOAP 1.2</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html" class="externalLink" title="External Link">REST</a> style of Webservices. A single service could be exposed both as a SOAP style as well as a REST style service simultaneously. It also has built in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-mtom/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">MTOM</a> support, that can be used to exchange binary data.</p> |
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| <p>Apache Axis2/C is efficient, modular and is designed with extensibility. The extensible design allows it to support the full WS-* stack with the concept of modules. Apache Axis2/C is the Web services engine that supports the most number of WS-* specification implementations in C, with guaranteed interoperability. This enables using C in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations, and would be very useful when integrating legacy systems into SOA. |
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| The following WS-* specifications are supported, either as built in modules |
| or as separate Apache projects: </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/ws-addressing/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-Addressing</a> - Built in to Axis2/C </li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Policy/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-Policy</a> - Built in to Axis2/C </li> |
| <li><a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wss" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-Security</a> - Implemented by <a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/1_2/security-module.html" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Apache Rampart/C</a> project </li> |
| <li> <a href="http://specs.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/07/securitypolicy/ws-securitypolicy.pdf" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-SecurityPolicy</a> - Built in to Axis2/C </li> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrm" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-ReliableMessaging</a> - Implemented by <a href="http://ws.apache.org/sandesha/sandesha2/c" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Apache Sandesha2/C</a>project |
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| <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Eventing/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-Eventing</a> - Implemented by <a href="http://ws.apache.org/savan/c/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Apache Savan/C</a>project</li> |
| </ul> |
| <div class="subsection"> |
| <a name="Latest_Release"></a> |
| <h3>Latest Release</h3> |
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| <div class="subsection"> |
| <a name="17_January_2008_-_Apache_Axis2_C_Version_1_2_0_Released"></a> |
| <h3>29th February 2008 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.3.0 Released</h3> |
| <p><a href="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Download 1.3.0</a></p> |
| </div> |
| <div class="subsection"> |
| <a name="Key_Features"></a> |
| <h3>Key Features</h3> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)</li> |
| <li>Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and more advanced operation client API</li> |
| <li>Transports supported: HTTP |
| <ul> |
| <li>Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server</li> |
| <li>Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side</li> |
| <li>IIS module for server side</li> |
| <li>Client transport with ability to enable SSL support</li> |
| <li>Basic HTTP Authentication</li> |
| <li>libcurl based client transport</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model</li> |
| <li>WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module</li> |
| <li>MTOM/XOP support</li> |
| <li>AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support </li> |
| <li>XML parser abstraction |
| <ul> |
| <li>Libxml2 wrapper</li> |
| <li>Guththila pull parser support</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules </li> |
| <li>Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages) </li> |
| <li>Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy) </li> |
| <li>Message receiver abstraction |
| <ul> |
| <li>Inbuilt raw XML message receiver</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool) <ul> |
| <li>Axis Data Binding (ADB) support </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Transport proxy support</li> |
| <li>REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET </li> |
| <li>Comprehensive documentation |
| <ul> |
| <li>Axis2/C Manual </li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension</li> |
| <li>TCP Transport, for both client and server side </li> |
| </ol></div> |
| <div class="subsection"> |
| <a name="Major_Changes_Since_Last_Release"></a> |
| <h3>Changes Since Last Release</h3> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Fixed a bug on version numbering</li> |
| <li>List Axis2/C dependencies licensing in LICENSE file</li> |
| <li>Add relevant copyright notices to NOTICE file</li> |
| <li>Digest Authentication Support</li> |
| <li>Proxy Authentication Support</li> |
| <li>Ability to insert xml declaration on outgoing payloads</li> |
| <li>Enhanced REST support</li> |
| <li>MTOM support with libcurl</li> |
| <li>Improvements to TCPMon Tool</li> |
| <li>Improvements to Test Coverage</li> |
| <li>Improvements to API docs</li> |
| <li>Improvements to CA certificate validation mechanisms on SSL Transport</li> |
| <li>Improvements to Neethi</li> |
| <li>Fixed issue in HTTP GET on mod_axis2</li> |
| <li>Major Improvements to Guththila Parser</li> |
| <li>Improvements to libcurl based sender</li> |
| <li>Creation of a FAQ list</li> |
| <li>Improvements to Axis2/C documentation</li> |
| <li>Added Documentation on Archive Based Deployment</li> |
| <li>Fixes for IIS module</li> |
| <li>Removed dependency in util for the Axis2/C core</li> |
| <li>Ability to access transport headers at the service level (for RESTful services)</li> |
| <li>uint64_t and int64_t support at util layer and codegen level</li> |
| <li>Removed zlib dependencies when Archive Based Deployment model is disabled</li> |
| <li>Signal Handling in Windows</li> |
| <li>Removed over 99% of the warnings found on Windows</li> |
| <li>Increased build speed on Windows with nmake.</li> |
| <li>Improvements to Windows build system</li> |
| <li>Extensions to client API to support HTTP/Proxy Authentication</li> |
| <li>Memory leak fixes</li> |
| <li>Many bug fixes</li> |
| </ol> |
| </div> |
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| <a name="Archived_News"></a> |
| <h3>Archived News</h3> |
| <p>Refer to information on the <a href="archived_news.html">previous releases</a>. |
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