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
- Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
- Basic HTTP Authentication
- Digest HTTP Authentication
- libcurl based client transport
- Transports supported: HTTPS
- HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL
- Transports supported: TCP
- for both client and server side
- 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
- 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 both 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
Changes Since Last Release
- Fixed a bug on version numbering
- List Axis2/C dependencies licensing in LICENSE file
- Add relevant copyright notices to NOTICE file
- Digest Authentication Support
- Proxy Authentication Support
- Ability to insert xml declaration on outgoing payloads
- Enhanced REST support
- Enhancements to Operation/Action mappings
- MTOM support with libcurl
- Improvements to TCPMon Tool
- Improvements to Test Coverage
- Improvements to API docs
- Improvements to CA certificate validation mechanisms on SSL Transport
- Improvements to Neethi