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31 October 2003 - Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha) Released

Apache Axis C++ Team is proud to announce the release of Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha).

This implementation of a C++ SOAP engine provides a stable platform for developing Web services using C/C++ as well as a client side library for developing C/C++ client applications. This release includes the following features:

• SOAP engine with both client and server support
• Partial support for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2
• WSDD based deployment with dynamic deployment tools.
• Support for all basic types, complex types and arrays
• WSDL2WS tool for building C/C++ components from WSDL
  Server side - Skeletons and Wrappers
  Client side - Stubs
• WSDL2WS tool generated wrappers act as RPC Providers and they perform
  Serialization
  Deserialization
  Method invocation
• WSDLs hosted statistically in the server.
• Standalone SOAP server (HTTP)
• Web server modules for Apache HTTPD 1.3 (Linux/Windows)
• Web interface to the deployed services and their WSDLs.
• Sample web services and client applications.
• Supportive documentation for developers and users.

Both binary and source are available at Apache mirror sites:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis-c/

We invite all interested Web services developers and users to evaluate Axis C++ and give us feedback and help improve Axis C++ to be the best C/C++ SOAP engine.

Please direct user questions to axis-user@ws.apache.org and any bug reports, patches, suggestions for improvement etc. to axis-dev@ws.apache.org.

The Axis C++ Development Team.