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| | Doc for 1.6.0</div><div class="xright"></div><div class="clear"><hr></hr></div></div><div id="leftColumn"><div id="navcolumn"><div id="menuApache_Axis2_C"><h5>Apache Axis2/C</h5><ul><li class="none"><a href="index.html">Apache Axis2/C Home</a></li><li class="expanded"><a href="http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Download Axis2/C</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Releases</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="docs/index.html">Documentation</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="docs/installationguide.html">Installation Guide</a></li><li class="none"><a href="docs/axis2c_manual.html">Axis2/C manual</a></li><li class="none"><a href="docs/faq.html">Axis2/C FAQ</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="lists_issues.html">Get Involved</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="lists_issues.html">Mailing Lists & Issue Tracking</a></li><li class="none"><a href="svn.html">Checkout Source Code</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="coding_conventions.html">Developer Guidelines</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="coding_conventions.html">Coding Convention</a></li><li class="none"><a href="versioning.html">Versionning</a></li></ul></li><li class="expanded"><a href="team-list.html">Project Information</a><ul><li class="none"><a href="team-list.html">Project Team</a></li><li class="none"><a href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/axis/axis2/c/core/trunk/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Source Code</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><a href="http://maven.apache.org/" title="Built by Maven" id="poweredBy"><img alt="Built by Maven" src="./images/logos/maven-button-1.png"></img></a></div></div><div id="bodyColumn"><div class="contentBox"><div class="section"><a name="Welcome_to_Apache_Axis2_C"></a><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><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><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://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/rampart/" 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://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/sandesha" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Apache Sandesha2/C</a>project | |
| </li> | |
| <li><a href="http://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Eventing/" class="externalLink" title="External Link">WS-Eventing</a> - Implemented by <a href="http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/savan" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Apache Savan/C</a>project</li> | |
| </ul><div class="subsection"> | |
| <a name="Latest_Release"></a> | |
| <h3>Latest Release</h3> | |
| </div><div class="subsection"> | |
| <a name="20_April_2009_-_Apache_Axis2_C_Version_1_6_0_Released"></a> | |
| <h3>20th April 2009 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.6.0 Released</h3> | |
| <p><a href="http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/download.cgi" class="externalLink" title="External Link">Download 1.6.0</a></p> | |
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| <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. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7</li> | |
| <li>Client transport with ability to enable SSL support</li> | |
| <li>Basic HTTP Authentication</li> | |
| <li>AMQP Transport based on Apache Qpid (Experimental)</li><li> | |
| </li><li>libcurl based client transport</li> | |
| <li>CGI interface</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>XPath support for Axiom XML Object model</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>XPath support for Axiom XML object model</li> | |
| <li>CGI support</li> | |
| <li>Improvements to MTOM to send, receive very large attachments</li> | |
| <li>Improvements to AMQP transport</li> | |
| <li>Improvements to WSDL2C codegen tool</li> | |
| <li>Many bug fixes.</li> | |
| <li>Memory leak fixes</li> | |
| </ol> | |
| </div><div class="subsection"> | |
| <a name="Archived_News"></a> | |
| <h3>Archived News</h3> | |
| <p>Refer to information on the <a href="archived_news.html">previous releases</a>. | |
| </p> | |
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