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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Administration console for Axis2/C, WSF/C and WSF/C++

WSO2 Web Services Framework Admin (WSF Admin) M1 Released

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WSO2 WSF/C team is pleased to announce the M1 release of WSO2 WSF Admin Console for Apache Axis2/C, WSO2 WSF/C and WSO2 WSF/C++. You can download this release from http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/c

WSO2 WSF Admin Console is a runtime management GUI for Apache Axis2/C, WSO2 Web Service Framework for C and WSO2 Web Services Framework for C++ that is powered by the WSO2 Carbon Frontend, a Java based web UI. The management console backend is a collection of Axis2/C services and modules that are deployed within the framework itself. The communication between the frontend and backend is based on SOAP and REST.

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Key Features

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1. Configure Apache Axis2/C, WSO2 WSF/C and WSO2 WSF/C++ through a Web UI.

2. Ability to view service group, service, operation and module meta data.

3. Configure and apply/remove security on a service dynamically.

4. Policy Editor.

5. Monitor service usage statistics.

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Reporting Problems

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Please report issues on the public JIRA available at:

https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSFC

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Contact Us

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Please subscribe to our user or developer mailing lists. For details on how to

subscribe please visit http://wso2.org/mail.

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Discussion Forums

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Please feel free to use the following public forums to find out answers to

your questions on WSF/C or WSF/C++.

1. http://wso2.org/forum/185

2. http://wso2.org/forum/352.

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Training

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WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of professional Training Programs which includes training on WSF/C. For additional information please refer to http://wso2.com/training/

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Support

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WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support which is up through normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.

For additional support information please refer to

http://wso2.com/support/

We welcome your feedback on this implementation.

Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSF Admin Console.

-- WSO2 WSF/C Team --

Monday, December 14, 2009

WSO2 WSF/C 2.0.0

Have you tried newest WSO2 WSF/C 2.0.0? It has lots of new features:

Security Enhancements

WS-Trust (1.0 & 1.2) support
WS-SecureConversation (1.0 & 1.2) support
PKCS12 Keystore support
SAML 1.1 Support (Experimental)
WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 support
Rahas module to give STS support to any service

Enhancement to Reliable Messaging

WS-ReliableMessaging 1.1 support
WS-ReliableMessagingPolicy support

Improved XML processing

Performance improvements to Guththila Parser
XPath support for Axiom

Binary Data Capability

SwA support
Improved MTOM support to send/receive very large attachment with constant memory foot print
User defined caching callback methods to receive large attachments
User defined sending callback method to send large attachments

Comprehensive REST support

Ability to map URI to operations
Support for HTTP verbs (POST, GET, PUT and DELETE)

New Transports to Publish/Consume Web Services

AMQP Transport
UDP Transport

Enhanced Deployment Models

CGI deployment support
IIS 6 & IIS 7 deployment support

Lot to come in next release. Tell us what you want?

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 Released!

Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 released today. You can find the release note below:

We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Rampart/C version 1.3.0.
You can download this release from
http://ws.apache.org/rampart/c/download.cgi

Key features
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1. Ability to send and verify UsernameTokens with
- Username and PlainText password
- Username and Digested password

2. Ability to send Timestamp tokens

3. SOAP message encryption
- With derived key support for improved security
- Symmetric and Asymmetric modes of operations
- Support for AES and Tripple DES encryption
- Signature encryption
- Keys encryption

4. SOAP message signature
- XML signature with RSA-SHA1
- Message authentication with HMAC-SHA1
- Signature confirmation support
- SOAP Header signing

5. WS-Security Policy (spec 1.1 & spec 1.2) based configurations
- Support for both Symmetric as well as Asymmetric policy bindings
- Support for different modes of key identifiers
- Support for different algorithm suites
[Basic128, Basic 192, Basic256, TrippleDES, Basic128Rsa15,
Basic192Rsa15,Basic256Rsa15, TripleDesRsa15]
- Support for IssuedToken assertion in client side.
- Support for SAMLToken assertion.

6. Replay detection support
- Easy to use built-in replay detection module
- Ability to deploy a customized replay detection module

7. Different protection orders
- Encrypt before signing
- Sign before encrypting

8. Extensible modules
- Password callback module
- Authentication module
- Credentials module
- Replay detection module
- Secure conversation token module

9. Keys management
- Support for X509 token profile
- Support for Key identifiers, Thumb prints, Issuer/Serial pairs,
Embedded and Direct references
- Support for PKCS12 keystore

10. WS-Secure Conversation Language support
- Establishing Security Context and thereby maintaining a session
- Per message key derivation
- Support for stored securtiy context token
- Rahas module support to give STS functionality to a service

11. WS-Trust Language support
- Security Token Services (STS)
- STS Client
- Server and Client entrophy support

12. SAML Support
- Support for Creation and Processing of SAML Core 1.1 Assertions
- SAML Token as Sign Supporting Token
- Signing and Encryption with SAML

10. Other
- Easy to use deployment scripts
- A comprehensive set of samples

Major Changes Since Last Release
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1. WS-Secure Conversation Language support
2. WS-Trust Language support
3. Rahas module to give STS support to a service
4. PKCS12 Keystore support
5. Security Policy 1.2 support
6. Memory leak fixes
7. Many bug fixes

Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 works with the Apache Axis2/C 1.6.0
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi

Issues can be reported here.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAMPARTC

We welcome your early feedback.
Thank you for your interest in Rampart/C.

--Apache Rampart/C Team--
http://ws.apache.org/rampart/c/

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Axis2/C 1.6.0 Released

Axis2/C 1.6.0 is released today. Release note is given below;

We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Axis2/C version 1.6.0.
You can download this release from
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi

Key Features
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1. Support for one-way messaging (In-Only) and
request response messaging (In-Out)
2. Client APIs : Easy to use service client API and
more advanced operation client API
3. Transports supported : HTTP
* Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
* Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side
* IIS module for server side. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7.
* Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
* Basic HTTP Authentication
* Digest HTTP Authentication
* libcurl based client transport
* CGI interface
4. Transports supported : HTTPS
* HTTPS Transport implementation using OpenSSL
5. Transports supported : TCP
* for both client and server side
6. Transports supported : AMQP
* AMQP Transport implementation using Apache Qpid
* Available only in Linux platforms.
* At an experimental stage. Please refer the INSTALL file to
build this.
7. Transport proxy support (HTTP)
* Proxy Authentication (Basic/Digest)
8. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing
model.
9. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and
final (2005/08) versions, implemented as a module.
10. MTOM/XOP support.
11. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages;
This has complete XML infoset support.
12. XPath support for Axiom XML Object model
13. XML parser abstraction
* Libxml2 wrapper
* Guththila pull parser support
14. Both directory based and archive based deployment models for
deploying services and modules
15. Description hierarchy providing access to static data of Axis2/C
runtime (configuration, service groups, services, operations and
messages)
16. Context hierarchy providing access to dynamic
Axis2/C runtime information (corresponding contexts to map to
each level of description hierarchy)
17. Message receiver abstraction
* Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
18. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given
WSDL (based on Java tool)
* Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
19. REST support (more POX like) using HTTP POST, GET, HEAD, PUT and
DELETE
* Support for RESTful Services
20. Comprehensive documentation
* Axis2/C Manual
21. WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy
extension

Major Changes Since Last Release
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1. XPath support for Axiom XML object model
2. CGI support
3. Improvements to MTOM to send, receive very large attachments
4. Improvements to AMQP transport
5. Improvements to WSDL2C codegen tool
6. Many bug fixes.
7. Memory leak fixes

We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C !!!

-- Apache Axis2/C Team --

Friday, March 6, 2009

Memory Handling conventions in Axis2/C

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Axis2/C Performance

Axis2/C benchmark performance test results are published here

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Axis2/C 1.5 Released.

I am very happy to see that Axis2/C team has done yet another release yesterday. In my view 1.5 is a very important release because it has come a long way in terms of stability and performance through it's frequent previous releases.

You can download it from here

New 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. Supports IIS 5.1, 6 and 7
- Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
- Basic HTTP Authentication
- AMQP Transport based on Apache Qpid (Experimental)
- 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
- Axis2/C Manual
WS-Policy implementation called Neethi/C, with WS-SecurityPolicy extension
TCP Transport, for both client and server side

Changes since last release.

AMQP Transport support with Apache Qpid. (At an experimental stage and not working under Windows)
Modifications to IIS Module to support IIS 6 & 7.
Added a JScript file to automate IIS module registry configuration
Specifying the MEP in the services.xml for non in-out messages made mandatory
Improved the in-only message handling
Improvements to Guthtila for better performance
Improvements to TCPMon tool
Memory leak fixes
Many bug fixes