Apache Axis2/C Archived News

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Apache Axis2/C Version 1.5.0 Released

Download 1.5.0

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. Support IIS 5.1, 6 and 7.
    • Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
    • Basic HTTP Authentication
    • libcurl based client transport
    • AMQP Transport support using Apache Qpid
  4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual
  17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
  18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side

Changes Since Last Release

  1. AMQP Transport support with Apache Qpid.
  2. Modifications to IIS Module to support IIS 6 and 7
  3. Added a JScript file to automate IIS module registry configuration
  4. Improved the in-only message handling
  5. Specifying the MEP in the services.xml for non in-out messages made mandatory
  6. Improvements to Guthtila for better performance
  7. Improvements to TCPMon tool
  8. Memory leak fixes
  9. Bug fixes

7th May 2008 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.4.0 Released

Download 1.4.0

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
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual
  17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
  18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side

Changes Since Last Release

  1. Fixed library version numbering
  2. Made Guththila as default XML parser
  3. Memory leak fixes
  4. Many bug fixes

3rd March 2008 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.3.0 Released

Download 1.3.0

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
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual
  17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
  18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side

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. Ability to insert xml declaration on outgoing payloads
  7. Enhanced REST support
  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

17th January 2008 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.2.0 Released

Download 1.2.0

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
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual
  17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
  18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. WS-Policy implementation
  2. TCP Transport
  3. Improvements to Guththila parser to improve performance
  4. Improvements to Java tool, WSDL2C, that generates C code
  5. Basic HTTP Authentication
  6. Memory leak fixes
  7. Many bug fixes

30th September 2007 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.1.0 Released

Download 1.1.0

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
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information(corresponding contexts to map to each level of description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual
  17. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
  18. TCP Transport, for both client and server side

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. WS-Policy implementation
  2. TCP Transport
  3. Improvements to Guththila parser to improve performance
  4. Improvements to Java tool, WSDL2C, that generates C code
  5. Basic HTTP Authentication
  6. Memory leak fixes
  7. Many bug fixes

06th May 2007 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.0.0 Released

Download 1.0.0

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 a more advanced operation client API
  3. Transports supported : HTTP
    • Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
    • Apache2 HTTPD module called mod_axis2 for the server side
    • IIS module for the server side
    • Client transport with the ability to enable SSL support
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, which is an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Many Bug Fixes
  2. IIS module for the server side
  3. libcurl based client transport
  4. Improvements to overall API to make it more user friendly, stable, and binary compatible
  5. Transport proxy support
  6. Memory leak fixes

22nd December 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.96 Released

Download 0.96

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support
  2. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
  3. Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  4. Directory based deployment model
  5. Archive based deployment model
  6. Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  7. Raw XML message receiver
  8. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  9. Module version support
  10. Transports supports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module for the server side
    • Client transport with the ability to enable SSL support
  11. Service client and operation client APIs
  12. REST support (HTTP POST case)
  13. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  14. MTOM/XOP support
  15. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  16. Security module with UsernameToken support
  17. REST support (HTTP GET case)
  18. Dynamic invocation support (based on XML schema and WSDL implementations)
  19. Guththila pull parser support
  20. WSDL2C code generation tool- with schema code generation (experimental)
  21. TCP Monitor - C implementation (experimental)
  22. Axis2/C Manual

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Major Memory leak fixes
  2. Many Bug Fixes
  3. Improvement to REST processing
  4. Improvement to SOAP-Fault processing
  5. Improvement to mod_axis2 library (plugged with apr pools)
  6. Visual Studio 7.0 project

Items pending for 1.0

  1. Complete API documentation and API improvements
  2. Fix further memory leaks
  3. Create a comprehensive functional test framework

26th October 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.95 Released

Download 0.95

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support
  2. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
  3. Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  4. Directory based deployment model
  5. Archive based deployment model
  6. Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  7. Raw XML message receiver
  8. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  9. Module version support
  10. Transports supports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module for server side
    • Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
  11. Service client and operation client APIs
  12. REST support (HTTP POST case)
  13. WS-Addressing, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  14. MTOM/XOP support
  15. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  16. Security module with UsernameToken support
  17. REST support (HTTP GET case)
  18. Dynamic invocation support (based on XML schema and WSDL implementations)
  19. Guththila pull parser support
  20. WSDL2C code generation tool- with schema code generation (experimental)
  21. TCP Monitor - C implementation (experimental)
  22. Axis2/C Manual - New

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Major Memory leak fixes
  2. Many Bug Fixes
  3. Improvement to Documentation

Items pending for 1.0

  1. Complete API documentation and API improvements
  2. Fix further memory leaks
  3. Create a comprehensive functional test framework

3rd October 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.94 Released

Download 0.94

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support
  2. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
  3. Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  4. Directory based deployment model
  5. Archive based deployment model
  6. Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  7. Raw XML message receiver
  8. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  9. Module version support
  10. Transports support: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module for the server side
    • Client transport with the ability to enable SSL support
  11. Service client and operation client APIs
  12. REST support (HTTP POST case)
  13. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  14. MTOM/XOP support
  15. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  16. Security module with UsernameToken support
  17. REST support (HTTP GET case)
  18. Dynamic invocation support (based on the XML schema and WSDL implementations)
  19. Guththila pull parser support - New
  20. WSDL2C code generation tool- with schema code generation (experimental) - New
  21. TCP Monitor - C implementation (experimental) - New

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Guththila pull parser support
  2. WSDL2C code generation tool
  3. TCP Monitor - C implementation
  4. Major Memory leak fixes
  5. Fixes to code generation with Java Tool
  6. Many Bug Fixes

Items pending for 1.0

  1. Complete API documentation and API improvements
  2. Fix further memory leaks
  3. Create a comprehensive functional test framework

31st August 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.93 Released

Download 0.93

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support
  2. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
  3. Description hierarchy (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  4. Directory based deployment model
  5. Archive based deployment model
  6. Context hierarchy (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  7. Raw XML message receiver
  8. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  9. Module version support
  10. Transports supports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module for the server side
    • Client transport with the ability to enable SSL support
  11. Service client and operation client APIs
  12. REST support (HTTP POST case)
  13. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  14. MTOM/XOP support
  15. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  16. Security module with UsernameToken support
  17. REST support (HTTP GET case)
  18. Dynamic invocation support (based on the XML schema and WSDL implementations)

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. REST support for HTTP GET case
  2. XML Schema implementation
  3. Woden/C implementation that supports both WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 2.0
  4. Dynamic client invocation (given a WSDL, it consumes the services dynamically)
  5. Numerous improvements to API and API documentation
  6. Many bug fixes, especially, many paths of execution previously untouched were tested along with the Sandesha2/C implementation

Items pending for 1.0

  1. Complete API documentation and API improvements
  2. Fix major memory leaks
  3. Test codegen for both ADB and none cases
  4. Put in place a comprehensive functional test framework
  5. WSDL2C tool

16th June 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.92 Released

Download 0.92

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
  2. Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
  3. Module Architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  4. Context hierarchy
  5. Directory based deployment model
  6. Raw XML providers
  7. WS-Addressing, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  8. Transports supports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module
    • SSL client transport
  9. Service Groups
  10. Service client and operation client APIs
  11. REST support (POST case)
  12. Module version support
  13. Archive based deployment Model
  14. MTOM support
  15. WSDL Code Generation Tool for Stub and skeletons (based on Java tool) New
    • Axis Data Binding - ADB New
  16. Security module, usernameToken support New

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Completed MTOM implementation with multiple attachment support and non-optimized case
  2. Completed service client API with send robust and fire and forget
  3. Added "message" to description hierarchy
  4. Archive based deployment model (for services and modules)
  5. Code generation for WSDL using Java WSDL2Code tool
  6. ADB support (with Java WSDL2Code tool)
  7. WS-Security usernameToken support
  8. Initial implementation of the XML Schema parser (To be used in WSDL parser and REST support)
  9. Initial implementation of WSDL parser (To be used in dynamic invocation)
  10. Changed double pointer environment parameters into pointer parameters to improve efficiency

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD in 1.0)

  1. Session scoping for Application, SOAP, Transport, and Request levels
  2. Different character encoding support
  3. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support (GET case)
  4. Dynamic client invocation (given a WSDL, it consumes services dynamically)

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD post 1.0)

  1. Security module with encryption and signing
  2. Server side Web Service Policy support
  3. C2WSDL
  4. WSDL2C

15th May 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.91 Released

Download 0.91

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
  2. Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
  3. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  4. Context hierarchy
  5. Directory based deployment model
  6. Raw XML providers
  7. WS-Addressing, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  8. Transports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module
    • SSL client transport New
  9. Service Groups New
  10. Service client and operation client APIs New
  11. REST support (POST case) New
  12. Module version support New
  13. MTOM support New

Other notes

  1. Interoperability tested with Axis2/Java for XML in/out client and services
  2. Addressing 1.0 interoperability

Major changes since last release

  1. Full Addressing 1.0 support
  2. Improved fault handling model
  3. SSL client transport
  4. MTOM implementation
  5. Implementation of easy to use service client and operation client APIs for client side programming
  6. REST support (POST case)
  7. Module version support
  8. Service groups
  9. Numerous bug fixes since last release

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD in 1.0)

  1. Sessions scoping for application, SOAP, transport and request levels
  2. Different character encoding support
  3. Dynamic invocation
  4. Archive based deployment Model

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD post 1.0)

  1. WSDL code generation tool for stub and skeletons (based on Java tool)
  2. Security module
  3. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) support (GET case)
  4. Web Services policy support

31st March 2006 Axis2/C Version 0.90 Released

Download 0.90

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
  2. Support for One-Way Messaging (In-Only) and Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
  3. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  4. Context hierarchy
  5. Directory based deployment model
  6. Raw XML providers
  7. WS-Addressing, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  8. Transports: HTTP
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 HTTPD module

Experimental Features

  1. WSDL object model support New
    • Dynamic invocation

Other notes

  1. Interoperability tested with Axis2/Java for XML in/out client and services
  2. Addressing interoperability on client side

Major changes since last release

  1. Minimal memory leaks
  2. Apache2 module working in Windows
  3. More samples and tests
  4. WSDL object model was built based on the proposed WSDL 2.0 Component model.
  5. Dynamic invocation
  6. Numerous bug fixes since last release

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD in 1.0)

  1. Module version support
  2. Archive based deployment model
  3. Improved and user friendly client API
  4. Support for MTOM
  5. Session scoping for application, SOAP, transport, and request levels
  6. Service groups
  7. Different character encoding support

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD post 1.0)

  1. WSDL code generation tool for stub and skeletons (based on the Java tool)
  2. Security module
  3. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) support
  4. Web Services policy support
  5. Axis2 Web application (Web App)

10th March 2006 Axis2/C Milestone 0.5 Released

Download M-0.5

Key Features

  1. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages.
  2. Support for Request Response Messaging (In-Out)
  3. Module Architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP Processing Model
  4. Directory based deployment model
  5. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
  6. Improved and user friendly Client API
  7. Transports supports: HTTP
    • Axis2/C server
    • Apache integration module
  8. Raw XML providers
  9. Numerous bug fixes since last release

Major Changes Since the Last Release

  1. Improving code quality by fixing memory leaks and reviewing the code.
  2. Apache2 integration.
  3. More samples and tests
  4. Initial documentations(User Guide, Developer Guide, Installation Guide)

Still to be Done

See a list of what we think needs to be done, and consider helping out if you're interested.

  1. Management Interface for Axis2/C
  2. Implementation of other transports.
  3. Code generation and Dynamic Invocation
  4. Hot Deployment of Services
  5. Completion of interop tests
  6. Support for MTOM
  7. Axis Data Binding - ADB (Framework and Schema Compiler)
  8. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) Support

17th February 2006 Axis2/C Milestone 0.4 Released

We have done a considerable amount of improvements in the past two weeks since the M0.3 release.

We have the following features added on top of the M0.3 release

Key Features

1. Threading support and threaded simple axis server

2. Module loading support

3. Addressing module, and addressing based dispatching

4. HTTP chunking support

5. Improved logging mechanism

6. Ability to build and run on Windows platform

02nd February 2006 Axis2/C Milestone 0.3 Released

This is the first milestone release with a working SOAP engine; we have the simple axis server and client stubs working.

In addition to the M0.2 feature set, the following features are included

Key Features

1. Core engine in place with deployment, description, and context hierarchies and HTTP transport support.

2. SOAP processing support

3. Simple HTTP server

4. Client API implementation

5. Couple of working service and client samples

08th December 2005 Axis2/C Milestone 0.2 Released

We have been able to improve the OM module since the last release, and PHP binding for the OM module is in place.

Key Features

1. Improved OM module

2. libxml2 parser support

3. PHP binding for the OM module

4. Some test cases for PHP binding

5. Many memory leak fixes

25th November 2005 Axis2/C Milestone 0.1 Released

This release includes the C implementation of AXIOM, an important part of the Axis2C Web service stack.

Key Features

1. OM module

2. Guththila pull parser support

3. libxml2 parser support (only reader is supported as of now)

4. doxygen documentation support

5. A sample demonstrating how to use OM