Samisa Abeysinghe (pictured), pioneer of the Apache Axis2/C effort, architect the core of the Apache Axis2/C Web services engine and AJAXWorld Conference 2006 speaker, today announced the release of Apache Axis2/C version 0.93.

Abeysinghe, a Software Architect at WSO2 whose involvement in open source projects began in 2004 with the Apache Axis C/C++ project, continues to be an active contributor to the Apaxhe Axis 2C team. His session next month at AJAXWorld(October 2-4, 2006) is called "3-Tier No More" and is focused on integration-ready applications with AJAX and WS-*

He will show how combining the power of AJAX with Web services opens the door for a new class of integration-ready enterprise applications, and how these applications eliminate the Web-tier from the typical 3-tier style, replacing it with a AJAX client powered by an enhanced XMLHttpRequest style programming model called SOAPHttpRequest.

Although it works the same way SOAPHttpRequest transparently adds full support for WS-* QoS including addressing, security and reliable messaging. Abeysinghe will demonstrate how an AJAX programmer can leverage the full power of Web services from within the browser with the same popular, light-weight AJAX programming model.

The download of v0.93 is available from: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi.

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 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 support
17. REST support (HTTP GET case) - New
18. Dynamic invocation support (based on XML schema and WSDL implementations) - New

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, consume 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
Sandesha2/C implementation