Apache SOAP v2.1
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:41:16 -0800 From: James Snell <jmsnell@intesolv.com> Subject: Announcement: Apache SOAP v2.1
Announcement:
Apache SOAP v2.1 [1] has been released and is available at:
http://xml.apache.org/dist/soap
New Features Include:
- Added message handling support
- Added configurable error handling mechanism
- Added pluggable provider support
- Added client-side HTTPS support
- Added HTTP proxy support
- Added HTTP basic authentication support
- Added support for SOAP Messages with Attachments [2]
- Introduced SOAPContext
- Added support for transport hooks
- Added SSL support
- Reduced dependency on xsi:type for deserialization
- Added soap configuration file
- Added pluggable configuration manager
- Added support for international character sets
- Added support for default serialization/deserialization of: Hashtable (as xmlsoap:Map), Date (as xsd:timeInstant), and GregorianCalendar (as xsd:date)
[1] http://xml.apache.org/soap
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAPAttachments
Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See "Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)."