The Apache Software Foundation
We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.6.0.
You can download this release from
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi
Key Features
- Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
- Client APIs : Easy to use service client API and more advanced operation client API
- Transports supported : HTTP
* Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
* Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side
* IIS module for server side. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7.
* Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
* Basic HTTP Authentication
* Digest HTTP Authentication
* libcurl based client transport
* CGI interface - Transports supported : HTTPS
* HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL - Transports supported : TCP
* for both client and server side - Transports supported : AMQP
* AMQP Transport implementation using Apache Qpid
* Available only in Linux platforms.
* At an experimental stage. Please refer the INSTALL file build this. - Transport proxy support (HTTP)
* Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest) - Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model.
- WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module.
- MTOM/XOP support.
- AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support.
- XPath support for Axiom XML Object model
- XML parser abstraction
* Libxml2 wrapper
* Guththila pull parser support - Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
- Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
- Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
- Message receiver abstraction
* Inbuilt raw XML message receiver - Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
* Axis Data Binding (ADB) support - REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and DELETE
* Support for RESTful Services - Comprehensive documentation
* Axis2/C Manual - WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
Major Changes Since Last Release
- XPath support for Axiom XML object model
- CGI support
- Improvements to MTOM to send, receive very large attachments
- Improvements to AMQP transport
- Improvements to WSDL2C codegen tool
- Many bug fixes.
- Memory leak fixes
We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.
Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C !!!
-- Apache Axis2/C Team --