Apache Rampart 1.4 is a toolkit that provides implementations of the WS-Sec specifications for Apache Axis2 1.4, based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.4 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM 1.2.7 implementations.

You can download the releases from: http://ws.apache.org/rampart/download/1.4/download.cgi

There are two main Apache Axis2 modules provided with this release.

• rampart-1.4.mar -- This provides support for WS-Security and WS-SecureConversation features.
• rahas-1.4.mar -- This module provides the necessary components to enable SecurityTokenService functionality on a service.

Apache Rampart 1.4 uses a configuration model based on WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy. It is important to note that the Apache Rampart 1.0 style configuration is also available even though being marked as deprecated.

Apache Rampart 1.4 can be successfully used with the next Apache Sandesha2 release targeted towards Apache Axis2 1.4 to configure WS-SecureConversation + WS-ReliableMessaging scenarios.

The rampart module was successfully tested for interoperability with other WS-Security implementations.

WS - Sec specifications supported by Apache Rampart are as follows:

• WS - Security 1.0 / 1.1
• WS - Secure Conversation - February 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.1 - July 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.2 - EXPERIMENTAL
• WS - Trust - February 2005
• WS - Trust - WS-SX spec - EXPERIMENTAL

New features in Apache Rampart 1.4

• WS Security 1.1
  • Encrypted headers
  • Encrypted SHA1 references
• WS Security Policy 1.2 support
  • WS Trust
  • Renew binding
  • Validation binding
• New configuration options
  • Ability to plug in Custom policy validators
  • Ability to define certificate alias different from username for signature
  • Ability turn off mili second precision
• Ability to secure SOAP faults
• Increased interoparability with WCF 3.5

Thank you for using Apache Rampart.

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-- The Apache Rampart team

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This project provides an implementation of the SDO 2.1 specification and this is our first release to provide full coverage of the specification. In addition to completing the few remaining SDO 2.1 features there are a number of new features relating to XML serialization, new support for handling dynamic derivation from static classes and improvement to the sample programs. For the full change history take a look at RELEASE NOTES

To download SDO Java or for more information about the release go to: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany/sdo-java-releases.html

Apache Tuscany welcomes your help. Any contribution, including code, testing, improving the documentation, or bug reporting is always appreciated. For more information on how to get involved in Apache Tuscany visit the website at: http://incubator.apache.org/tuscany.

(Tuscany is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Web services PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.)

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-- The Apache Tuscany Team

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Apache Rampart 1.2 is a toolkit that provides implementations of the WS-Sec* specifications for Apache Axis2 1.2, based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.2 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM 1.2.4 implementations.

There are two main Apache Axis2 modules provided with this release.

• rampart-1.2.mar
  This provides support for WS-Security and WS-SecureConversation features.
• rahas-1.2.mar
  This module provides the necessary components to enable SecurityTokenService functionality on a service.

Apache Rampart 1.2 uses a configuration model based on WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy and it is important to note that Apache Rampart 1.0 style configuration is also available even though being marked as deprecated.

Apache Rampart 1.2 can be successfully used with the next Apache Sandesha2 release targeted towards Apache Axis2 1.2 to configure WS-SecureConversation + WS-ReliableMessaging scenarios.

The rampart module was successfully tested for interoperability with other WS-Security implementations.

WS - Sec* specifications supported by Apache Rampart are as follows:

• WS - Security 1.0
• WS - Secure Conversation - February 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.1 - July 2005
• WS - Trust - February 2005
• WS - Trust - WS-SX spec - EXPERIMENTAL

Thank you for using Apache Rampart.

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-- The Apache Rampart team

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You can download the releases from: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/wss4j/1_5_2

Apart from the binary and source distributions, We have an additional ZIP file that contains other required JAR files to install and run WSS4J.

This release of wss4j uses Apache XML Security 1.4.0.

Please refer to the *readme.* files in the distribution for further information regarding implemented features, additional information, links to the Wiki pages, etc.

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-- The Apache WSS4J team

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You can download this release from http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi

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 more advanced operation client API
3. Transports supported: HTTP
   1. Inbuilt HTTP server called simple axis server
   2. Apache2 httpd module called mod_axis2 for server side
   3. IIS module for server side
   4. Client transport with ability to enable SSL support
   5. libcurl based client transport
4. Module architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
5. WS-Addressing support, both the submission (2004/08) and final(2005/08) versions, implemented as a module
6. MTOM/XOP support
7. AXIOM, an XML object model optimized for SOAP 1.1/1.2 messages; This has complete XML infoset support
8. XML parser abstraction
   1. Libxml2 wrapper
   2. 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 to map to each level of description hierarchy)
12. Message receiver abstraction
    1. Inbuilt raw XML message receiver
13. Code generation tool for stub and skeleton generation for a given WSDL (based on Java tool)
    1. Axis Data Binding (ADB) support
14. Transport proxy support
15. REST support (more POX like) using both HTTP POST and GET
16. Comprehensive documentation
    1. Axis2/C Manual

Major Changes Since Last Release

1. Many Bug Fixes
2. IIS module for 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 We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.

Thank you for your interest in Axis2/C.

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-- The Apache Axis2/C Team

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Initialy developed as part of Apache Axis2, Apache AXIOM (AXIs Object Model) is the core of Apache Axis2. However, it is a pure standalone XML Infoset model with novel features and can be used independently of Apache Axis2.

Please visit: http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/

Key Features

• Full XML Infoset compliant XML object model
• StAX based builders with on-demand building and pull-through
• XOP/MTOM support offering direct binary support
• Convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of AXIOM
• Two implementations included:
  • Linked list based implementation
  • W3C DOM supporting implementation
• High performant

What's New in This Release

This is release includes a set of bug fixes which are necessary for Axis2 release and improvements to file caching.

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-- The Apache Axiom Team

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Initialy developed as part of Apache Axis2, Apache AXIOM (AXIs Object Model) is the core of Apache Axis2. However, it is a pure standalone XML Infoset model with novel features and can be used independently of Apache Axis2.

Please visit: http://ws.apache.org/commons/axiom/

Key Features
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• Full XML Infoset compliant XML object model
• StAX based builders with on-demand building and pull-through
• XOP/MTOM support offering direct binary support
• Convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of AXIOM
• Two implementations included:
  • Linked list based implementation
  • W3C DOM supporting implementation
• High performant

What's New in This Release
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This is release includes few bug fixes, specially following issues.

• WSCOMMONS-144 : Axiom having problem when serializing name spaces with null nameSpaceUri.

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-- The Apache Axiom Team

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The download is available at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis engine and is a more efficient, more scalable, more modular and more XML-oriented Web services framework. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extends its functionality for features such as security and reliability.

Modules supporting WS-Security/Secure-Conversation (Apache Rampart), WS-Trust (Apache Rahas), WS-Reliable Messaging (Apache Sandesha2) are already avaialable. Modules supporting WS-Eventing (Apache Savan) & WS-Transactions (Apache Kandula2) will be available soon after the Apache Axis2 1.1.1 release. Please see these projects' own sites for further information.

Major changes since 1.1:

• Performance improvements
• Bug fixes

Known issues and limitations in 1.1.1 release:

• ADB does not support unwrapping of response messages(coming in 1.2)
• JSR 181/183 Annotation support (coming in 1.2)
• JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental
• Simple Axis Server does not support POX/REST
• RPC Message Receiver does not validate request against the schema (AXIS2-1943)
• Axis2 Idea plugin shows random behavior when XMLBeans is used

Apache Axis2 1.1.1 is a bug fix release of Axis2's 1.1 version, which was a major release since Axis2 1.0. We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as satisfying advanced users.

We welcome any and all feedback:

• axis-user@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• axis-dev@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2

Thank you for your interest in Apache Axis2

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-- The Apache Axis2 Development Team

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http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/rampart/1_1

Apache Rampart 1.1 is a toolkit that provides implementations of the WS-Sec* specifications for Apache Axis2 1.1, based on Apache WSS4J 1.5.1 and the Apache AXIOM-DOOM 1.2.1 implementation.

What is in this release

There are two main Apache Axis2 modules provided with this release.

• rampart-1.1.mar -- This provides support for WS-Security and WS-SecureConversation features.
• rahas-1.1.mar -- This module provides the necessary components to enableSecurityTokenService functionality on a service.

Apache Rampart 1.1 introduces a new configuration model based on WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy and it is important to note that Apache Rampart 1.0 style configuration is now deprecated and will not be available in next major version.

Apache Rampart 1.1 can be successfully used with the next Apache Sandesha2 release targeted towards Apache Axis2 1.1 to configure WS-SecureConversation + WS-ReliableMessaging scenarios.

The rampart module was successfully tested for interoperability with other WS-Security implementations.

WS - Sec* specifications supported by Apache Rampart are as follows:

• WS - Security 1.0
• WS - Secure Conversation - February 2005
• WS - Security Policy - 1.1 - July 2005
• WS - Trust - February 2005
• WS - Trust - WS-SX spec - EXPERIMENTAL

Thank you for using Apache Rampart.

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-- The Apache Rampart team

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You can download the releases from:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/wss4j/1_5_1

Apart from the binary and source distributions, We have an additional ZIP file that contains other required JAR files to install and run WSS4J.

Please refer to the *readme.* files in the distribution for further information regarding implemented features, additional information, links to the Wiki pages, etc.

The WSS4J core classes were improved to allow more flexibility and control, and following issues were fixed afer the 1.5.0 release:

WSS-35, WSS-44, WSS-48, WSS-50, WSS-53, WSS-58, WSS-61

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-- The Apache WSS4J team

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Downloads are available at: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis engine and is a more efficient, more scalable, more modular and more XML-oriented Web services framework. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend its functionality for features such as security and reliability.

Modules supporting WS-Security/Secure-Conversation (Apache Rampart), WS-Trust (Apache Rahas), WS-Reliable Messaging (Apache Sandesha) and WS-Eventing (Apache Savan) will be available soon after the Apache Axis2 1.1 release. Please see these projects' own sites for further information.

Major Changes Since 1.0:

• Significantly improved documentation
• Significantly improved support for POJO services and clients
• Significantly improved support for Spring services
• Significantly improved Axis Data Binding (ADB) to increase schema coverage and overall stability
• Improved service lifecycle model
• Improved JMS support
• Improved handler and module interfaces
• Improved Eclipse and Idea plugins
• New Attachments API for sending & receiving MTOM and SwA attachments
• Built in support for WS-Policy via Apache Neethi
• Added support for unwrapping Web service requests
• Fixed tons of small and not-so-small bugs
• Major refactoring of release structure to make usage easy

Known Issues and Limitations in 1.1 Release:

• Unwrapping of response messages (coming in 1.2)
• JSR 181/183 Annotation support (coming in 1.2)
• JaxMe and JAXBRI data binding support is experimental
• Simple Axis Server does not support POX/REST

Apache Axis2 1.1 is a major new release compared to Axis2 1.0. We are striving for a simple and happy first time user experience as well as a satisfying experienced user experience with this release. We welcome any and all feedback at:

• axis-user@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• axis-dev@ws.apache.org (please include "[axis2]" in the subject)
• http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2

Thank you for your interest in Apache Axis2

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-- The Apache Axis2 Development Team

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Apache AXIOM is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. It supports a novel "pull-through" model which allows one to turn off the tree building and directly access the underlying pull event stream. It also has built-in support for XML Optimized Packaging (XOP) and MTOM, the combination of which allows XML to carry binary data efficiently and in a transparent manner. The combination of these results in a easy to use API with a very high performant architecture!

Key Features

• Full XML Infoset compliant XML object model
• StAX based builders with on-demand building and pull-through
• XOP/MTOM support offering direct binary support
• Convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of AXIOM
• Two implementations included:
  • Linked list based implementation
  • W3C DOM supporting implementation
• High performant

What's New in This Release

• Improved XML serialization
• Improved Builder hierarchy
• Improved MTOM handling
• Numerous bug fixes

If you like to contribute to AXIOM please help us to shape AXIOM. Any contribution in the form of coding, testing, submitting improvements to the documentation, and reporting bugs are always welcome.

Project Mailing List : commons-dev@ws.apache.org

Thanks for your interest in Apache AXIOM.

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-- The Apache AXIOM Development Team

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XMLSchema is a lightweight schema object model that can be used tomanipulate and generate XML schema representations. It has no external dependancies and can be easily integrated into an existing project.

You are welcome to kick the tires and get XMLSchema on the move. If you like to help us shape XMLSchema any contribution in the form of coding, testing, submitting improvements to the documentation, and reporting bugs are always welcome.

Thanks for your interest in XMLSchema

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-- The Apache WS-Commons XMLSchema Development Team

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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
    • Both simple axis server and Apache2 httpd module for server side
    • 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)
    • 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

TODOs Remaining for 1.0

1. Complete API documentation and API improvements
2. Fix major memory leaks
3. Test codegen for both ADB and none cases
4. Put in place a comprehensive functional test framework
5. WSDL2C tool

We welcome your early feedback on this implementation. Thanks for your interest in Axis2C

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-- Apache Axis2C Development Team

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• A streaming mode allows running client and server with a low memory profile, regardless of any document size.
• XML-RPC request and response may be compressed using gzip
• Custom data types are supported, in particular null, byte, short, long, float, big decimal, big integer, DOM nodes, Serializable objects, Calendar

Additionally, support for dynamic client generation is available. In other words, if the servers methods are implementing an interface, then the client may create an instance of the same interface, which is actually invoking the servers methods.

The Apache XML-RPC web site is at:

http://ws.apache.org/xmlrpc

Apache XML-RPC 3 is available from any Apache mirror:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/xmlrpc

Maven 1 and 2 compliant jar files are available from

http://repo1.maven.org/maven/xmlrpc

http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/xmlrpc/

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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. Module Architecture, mechanism to extend the SOAP processing model
4. Context hierarchy
5. Directory based deployment model
6. Raw XML providers
7. WS-Addressing, both the submission (2004/08) and final (2005/08) versions
8. Transports supports: HTTP -- Apache Axis2/C Team -- ack on this implementation.

Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C

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-- The Apache Axis2/C Team

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You can download this release from our official site at http://ws.apache.org/commons/tcpmon/download.cgi

The release jar is available at http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repository/ws-commons/jars/ for embedding purposes

Additions to this release apart from the regular TCPMon include

1. SOAP message sender capability to send arbitrary SOAP messages
2. Batch and shell scripts to easily start TCPMon
3. Documentation including a simple user guide

Please use this release and send your comments to commons-dev@ws.apache.org.

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-- Apache TCPMon Team

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In addition to the WS-Security features listed in the WSS4J web site (http://ws.apache.org/wss4j) rampart provides:

• Ability to MTOM optimize parts of the message
• Convenient and intuitive configurations
• Mechanism to dynamically configure the module
• Experimental WS-SecurityPolicy support

This module was successfully tested for interoparability with other WS-Security implementations.

You can download the rampart-1.0.mar from:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/mirrors/mirrors.cgi/ws/axis2/modules/rampart/1_0/

For documentation on configuration please refer

http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/1_0/security-module.html

Let "rampart" secure your messages !!!

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-- Apache Rampart Team

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Apache Axis2 is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack to build on the lessons learnt from Apache Axis.

Apache Axis2 not only supports SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2, but it also has integrated support for the widely popular REST style of Web services: the same business logic implementation can offer both a WS-* style interface as well as a REST style interface simultaneously.

Apache Axis2 is more efficient, more modular and more XML-oriented than the older version. It is carefully designed to support the easy addition of plug-in "modules" that extend its functionality for features such as security and reliability. Modules currently available or under development include:

• WS-ReliableMessaging - Supported by Apache Sandesha2
• WS-Coordination and WS-AtomicTransaction - Supported by Apache Kandula2
• WS-Security - Supported by Apache Rampart
• WS-Addressing - Module included as part of Axis2 core

Apache Axis2 is built on Apache Axiom (WebServices Commons), a new high performant, pull-based XML object model that was released two days ago.

Downloads: http://ws.apache.org/axis2/download.cgi

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-- The Apache Axis2 Development Team

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Mirrors: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/commons/neethi/1_0_1/

Please use our backup site if the mirrors are not yet updated.

Backup: http://www.apache.org/dist/ws/commons/neethi/1_0_1/

Please feel free to send any feedback to our mailing list commons-dev@ws.apache.org (preferably with [Neethi] prefix).

Visit our website at: http://ws.apache.org/commons/neethi/index.html for further information.

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-- The Apache Neethi Team

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You can download the releases from:

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/wss4j/1_5_0

The distributions to the mirror(s) sites will be available in the next few days.

Apart from the binary and source distributions, We have an additional ZIP file that contains other required JAR files to install and run WSS4J.

Please refer to the *readme.* files in the distribution for further information regarding implemented features, additional information, links to the Wiki pages, etc.

Note that major refactoring from the 1.1.0 to 1.5.0 is mentioned in the wiki : http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/WsFx/refactor

More information about WSS4J and related projects is available on the WSS4J homepage:

http://ws.apache.org/wss4j

We hope you have fun with this new WSS4J

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-- The Apache WSS4J team

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Apache AXIOM is a StAX-based, XML Infoset compliant object model which supports on-demand building of the object tree. It supports a novel "pull-through" model which allows one to turn off the tree building and directly access the underlying pull event stream. It also has built in support for XML Optimized Packaging (XOP) and MTOM, the combination of which allows XML to carry binary data efficiently and in a transparent manner. The combination of these is an easy to use API with a very high performant architecture.

Developed as part of Apache Axis2, Apache AXIOM is the core of Apache Axis2. However, it is a pure standalone XML Infoset model with novel features and can be used independently of Apache Axis2.

Key Features

• Full XML Infoset compliant XML object model
• StAX based builders with on-demand building and pull-through
• XOP/MTOM support offering direct binary support
• Convenient SOAP Infoset API on top of AXIOM
• Two implementations included:
  • Linked list based implementation
  • W3C DOM supporting implementation
• High performance

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-- The Apache WebServices Commons Project

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Vote thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-commons-dev/200604.mbox/%3c44434989.2010406@apache.org%3e

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