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Flows, Phases, Handlers, and Modules in Apache Axis2/C

Apache Axis2/C is the C language implementation of popular Axis2 Architecture. Axis2/C can be used as a web service client and web service application server that will host web services. In this Article Axis2/C project lead Samisa Abeysighe discuss four main concepts of Axis2/C architecture which will make the Axis2/C the Webserivce Engine.

Link: http://wso2.org/library/777

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Apache Axis2 1.1 Released

Apache Axis2 1.1 released after 6 months from the original 1.0 release.

Downloads are available at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

Major changes since 1.0:

  • Significantly improved documentation
  • Significantly improved support for POJO services and clients
  • Significantly improved support for Spring services
  • Significantly improved Axis Data Binding (ADB) to increase schema coverage and overall stability
  • Improved service lifecycle model
  • Improved JMS support
  • Improved handler and module interfaces
  • Improved Eclipse and Idea plugins
  • New Attachments API for sending & receiving MTOM and SwA attachments
  • Built in support for WS-Policy via Apache Neethi
  • Added support for unwrapping Web service requests
  • Fixed tons of small and not-so-small bugs
  • Major refactoring of release structure to make usage easy

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