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?

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/

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 --

Memory Handling conventions in Axis2/C

Memory Handling conventions in Axis2/C