[ANN] gSOAP 2.3.8 released

We are pleased to announce the gSOAP 2.3.8 stable release for C and C++ Web services:

** Support for ANSI C and C++, including STL and templates
** Full support for SOAP 1.1 and 1.2
** Full support for WSDL 1.1 (document import and generation)
** Proven interoperability (including all SOAP encoding types, SOAP sparse arrays, bitmasks,
and Schema simpleTypes and complexTypes)
** Open source with flexible public license, not encumbered by patents or hidden fees or
royalties
** Design and implementation are based on award-winning research
** Used in a large number of industrial projects since 2000
** RPC compiler generates stubs, skeletons, WSDL, schemas, and test XML messages
** Highly portable, including support for legacy C systems, and embedded OS such as WinCE,
Symbian, and Palm OS
** Small memory footprint (<90K client and server code, with <150 total footprint)
** Adopts a fast XML pull-parsing technique (can outperform Java RMI)
** Stand-alone HTTP 1.1 Web server (HTTPS secure)
** ISAPI, Apache mod, WinInet, CGI, FastCGI support
** Streaming SOAP/XML with DIME attachments
** Automatic mapping of C and C++ data types to XML schemas
** Supports C++ single inheritance
** Supports polymorphism
** Implements serialization of native application data types to XML, no need to manually write
or generate wrappers
** Supports Zlib compression
** Supports OpenSSL (HTTPS)
** HTTP Proxy and authentication support
** Automatic memory management
** Logging facilities
** Flexible transport layer: plug in your own transport or serialize to strings for example
** Includes numerous examples, such as Web servers, streaming DIME server and client, one-
liners, remote object factory, router (and dispatcher), polymorphic object
exchange
** Extensive documentation
** Active mailing list with > 1000 participants, > 15000 downloads

For more information:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsoap2

Success stories:

http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soapstories.html

Enjoy!

- Robert van Engelen, Asst. Professor, Computer Science Department, FSU, and Genivia, Inc.