Welcome to Apache Axis2/C

Apache Axis2/C is an effort to implement Axis2 architecture in C. Apache Axis2/C can be used to provide and consume Web Services.

Background and Motivation

This implementation provides the C language option in consuming and providing Web Services. Apache Axis2/C is looking at broadening its horizon by its ability to plug in and embed into other software systems.

Latest Release

30h April 2007 - Apache Axis2/C Version 1.0.0 Released

Download 1.0.0

Key Features

  1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and request response messaging (In-Out)
  2. Client APIs: Easy to use service client API and a more advanced operation client API
  3. Transports supported : HTTP
    • Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
    • Apache2 HTTPD module called mod_axis2 for the server side
    • IIS module for the server side
    • Client transport with the ability to enable SSL support
    • libcurl based client transport
  4. Module architecture, with a mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
  5. WS-Addressing support, for both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
  6. MTOM/XOP support
  7. AXIOM, which is an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages. This has complete XML infoset support.
  8. XML parser abstraction
    • Libxml2 wrapper
    • Guththila pull parser support
  9. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for deploying services and modules
  10. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations, and messages)
  11. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts mapped to each level of the description hierarchy)
  12. Message receiver abstraction
    • Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
  13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on the Java tool)
    • Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
  14. Transport proxy support
  15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
  16. Comprehensive documentation
    • Axis2/C Manual

Major Changes Since Last Release

  1. Many Bug Fixes
  2. IIS module for the server side
  3. libcurl based client transport
  4. Improvements to overall API to make it more user friendly, stable, and binary compatible
  5. Transport proxy support
  6. Memory leak fixes

Archived News

Refer to information on the previous release.