Axis2 > C

In this tutorial, Supun Kamburugamuva illustrates debugging Apache Axis2/C services and clients in both Windows and Linux platforms under different deployment scenarios.

One of the main deployment scenarios of Apache Axis2/C is with Apache Web Server. Best performance and stability can be gained by deploying Axis2/C in Apache. When deployed in Apache server, Axis2/C uses the memory pools supplied by Apache and guarantees zero memory leaks. Also due to custom memory implementation Axis2/C can perform up to its maximum.

This article by Eran Chinthaka describes the requirement of understanding the mustUnderstand SOAP header property in designing and implementing Web services.

Both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 specifications enable you to use mustUnderstand attributes with SOAP headers. Not handling these headers properly is a common concern during Web service interactions. Within Axis2, repercussions of not understanding some of these mustUnderstand headers is common, especially in those ciscumstances when you try to use add-on modules with Axis2. This article describes the mustUnderstand header field and goes on to explain the cause of such errors. The article also looks at what happens inside Axis2, as such errors are encountered and how some of it can be fixed with minimal effort.

In this article by Damitha Kumarage, he illustrates performance tests performed for Axis2/C for similar purposes as Axis2/Java performance tests .

Apache Axis2/C provides facilities to the user to configure its Web Service clients to communicate with services via a proxy. This can be achieved in two different ways.

1. Configuring proxy programmatically for a particular client using service client API.

2. Enabling proxy globally for all the clients by configuring axis2.xml

This article by Supun Kamburugamuva touches Axis2/C and IIS ISAPI technologies and goes on to explain how these two technologies can be combined to create a rich communication platform.

Axis2/C supports MTOM (SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) and SwA (SOAP with attachments) that allows you to easily implement clients and services to handle attachments either way. In addition, you can convert binary content to base64 and vice-versa while sending and receiving attachments. This tutorial discusses the API and configuration options for handling SOAP Attachments within Axis2/C.

In this introductory tutorial, Dimuthu Gamage explains how to use Axis2/Java tools to ease the development of Axis2/C Web Services.