| 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 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. | |
| -------------------------------- | |
| 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 -- | |