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Axis2C Complete Features List

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 to map to each level of 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
    • o Both simple axis server and Apache2 httpd module for server side o Client transport with 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 Java tool)
    • o Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
16. Security module with usernameToken, time stamp 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
21. TCP Monitor - C implementation
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

TODOs remaining for 1.0

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

Un-Implemented Architecture Features (TBD post 1.0)

• Security module with encryption and signing
• Server side Web Service Policy support
• C2WSDL
• Different character encoding support