Welcome to Apache Axis2/C
Apache Axis2/C is a Web services engine implemented in the C programming
language. It is based on the extensible and flexible
Axis2 architecture.
Apache Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume Web
Services. It has been implemented with portability and ability to embed in mind,
hence could be used as a Web services enabler in other software.
Apache Axis2/C supports
SOAP 1.1 and
SOAP 1.2, as well as
REST style of Web
services. A single service could be exposed both as a SOAP style as
well as a REST style service simultaneously. It also has built in
MTOM support, that can be used
to exchange binary data.
Apache Axis2/C is efficient, modular and is designed with extensibility.
The extensible design allows it to support the full WS-* stack with the concept of modules.
Apache Axis2/C is the Web services engine that supports
the most number of WS-* specification implementations in C, with guaranteed
interoperability. This enables using C in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
implementations, and would be very useful when integrating legacy systems
into SOA.
The following WS-* specifications are supported, either as built in modules
or as separate Apache projects:
Latest Release
30th September 2007 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.1.0 Released
Download 1.1.0
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
- libcurl based client transport
- 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
- Transport proxy support
- REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
- Comprehensive documentation
- WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
- TCP Transport, for both client and server side
Major Changes Since Last Release
- WS-Policy implementation
- TCP Transport
- Improvements to Guththila parser to improve performance
- Improvements to Java tool, WSDL2C, that generates C code
- Basic HTTP Authentication
- Memory leak fixes
- Many bug fixes
Archived News
Refer to information on the
previous
release.