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+Apache Axis2/C Team is 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
+============
+
+ 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
+================================
+
+ 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. Many bug fixes.
+ 6. Memory leak fixes
+
+We welcome your early feedback on this implementation.
+
+Thanks for your interest in Axis2/C !!!
+
+-- Apache Axis2/C Team --
+
+