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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/axis2/1_0/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>Axis 2 Java team released 1.0 recently. This implementation provides |
| another language option to consume and provide Web Services. Performance |
| being its forte, Axis2/C is looking at broadening its horizon 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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| <h3>22nd December 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.96 Released</h3> |
| <a href="download.cgi">Download 0.96</a> |
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| <h4>Key Features</h4> |
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| <li>AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 Messages. This |
| has complete XML infoset support</li> |
| <li>Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging |
| (In-Out)</li> |
| <li>Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, |
| operations and messages)</li> |
| <li>Directory based deployment model</li> |
| <li>Archive based deployment model</li> |
| <li>Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts to map to each level of |
| description hierarchy)</li> |
| <li>Raw XML message receiver</li> |
| <li>Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model</li> |
| <li>Module version support</li> |
| <li>Transports supports: HTTP |
| <ul> |
| <li>Both simple axis server and Apache2 httpd module for server |
| side</li> |
| <li>Client transport with ability to enable SSL support</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Service client and operation client APIs</li> |
| <li>REST support (HTTP POST case)</li> |
| <li>WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) |
| versions</li> |
| <li>MTOM/XOP support</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>Security module with UsernameToken support</li> |
| <li>REST support (HTTP GET case)</li> |
| <li>Dynamic invocation support (based on XML schema and WSDL |
| implementations)</li> |
| <li>Guththila pull parser support</li> |
| <li>WSDL2C code generation tool- with schema code generation (experimental)</li> |
| <li>TCP Monitor - C implementation (experimental)</li> |
| <li>Axis2/C Manual</li> |
| </ol> |
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| <h4>Major Changes Since Last Release</h4> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Major Memory leak fixes</li> |
| <li>Many Bug Fixes</li> |
| <li>Improvement to REST processing</li> |
| <li>Improvement to SOAP-Fault processing</li> |
| <li>Improvement to mod_axis2 library (plugged with apr pools)</li> |
| <li>Visual Studio 7.0 project</li> |
| </ol> |
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| <h4>TODOs Remaining for 1.0</h4> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Complete API documentation and API improvements</li> |
| <li>Fix further memory leaks</li> |
| <li>Put in place a comprehensive functional test framework</li> |
| </ol> |
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| <h2>Archived News</h2> |
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| <p>Details on Previous release can be found <a href="archived_news.html">here</a>.</p> |
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