Monday, 4 September 2006

Apache Axis2/C 0.93 Released

Axis2/C is an effort to implement Axis2 architecture, in C. Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume Web Services. The Apache Axis2C Development Team has announced the release of Apache Axis2/C version 0.93. Key features include:

• AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 Messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
• Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
• Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
• Directory based deployment model
• Archive based deployment model
• Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy).
• Raw XML message receiver
• Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
• Module version support
• Transports supports
• Service client and operation client APIs
• REST support (HTTP POST case)
• WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
• MTOM/XOP support
• Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
• Security module with UsernameToken support
• REST support (HTTP GET case)
• Dynamic invocation support (based on XML schema and WSDL implementations)