Announce: gSOAP 2.7.3 C/C++ XML web services released

We are pleased to announce the release of gSOAP 2.7.3 (stable) for 
C/C++ XML Web services.

gSOAP toolkit fact sheet

- Intended for C and C++ with optional use of STL containers
- Client and server (HTTP Web server included)
- High-performance Web services (measured with 2.2KB XML messages over 
HTTP):
	3241 roundtrip calls per second on AMD FX-53 2.4GHz, 64-bit Linux 2.6.5
	2990 roundtrip calls per second on AMD Opteron 148 2.2GHz, 64-bit 
Linux 2.6.5
	2265 roundtrip calls per second on 2x Itanium2 1.4GHz, Linux 2.6.9 
IA-64
	1936 roundtrip calls per second on Pentium4 3GHz (w/o HT), Linux 2.6.5
- Small footprint:
	73KB code and 2KB data for XMethods' delayed stock-quote client on 
Pentium4, Linux 2.6.5, gcc 3.3.3 -O1
	100KB code and 2KB data for Google API client on Pentium4, Linux 
2.6.5, gcc 3.3.3 -O1
- Portable open-source C/C++ code, tested on:
	Windows (Win32, MS-DOS, and Cygwin)
	Linux (RedHat, SuSE),
	Unix (Solaris, HP-UX,  FreeBSD, TRU64, Irix, QNX, AIX)
	Mac OS X
	small and embedded OSes (VxWorks, WinCE, Palm OS, Symbian).
- SOAP specification support:
	WS-I Basic Profile 1.0a compliant
	SOAP 1.1
	SOAP 1.2
	SOAP RPC encoding
	SOAP document/literal style
	request-response
	one-way
	one-way asynchronous
	SOAP-over-UDP
	C14N-exc
- Other XML-based protocol support:
	XML-RPC
	RSS
- SOAP attachments:
	MIME (SwA)
	DIME (streaming)
	MTOM
- WSDL 1.1 specification support:
	WS-I Basic Profile 1.0a compliant
	WSDL to C or C++ source code conversion
	XML schema to C or C++ source code conversion
	C or C++ source code (header file) to WSDL and XML schema conversion
- UDDI v2
	inquire API
	publish API
- WS-* protocol support:
	WS-Addressing
	WS-Discovery
	WS-Enumeration
	WS-Policy
	WS-Security (partial, completed by August 2005)
	... (user can implement others with the 'wsdl2h' translation tool)
- HTTP 1.0/1.1 and HTTPS support:
	GET and POST
	cookies
	compression
	chunking
	keep-alive
	basic authentication
	digest authentication
	MD5 checksum
	SSL/TLS encryption and certificate authentication
	SSL session caching
	proxies and proxy authentication
- Networking support:
	IPv4 and IPv6
	TCP
	UDP unicast
	UDP multicast
	GSI (Grid Security Infrastructure)
	... (other stream handlers are available as plug-ins)
- Server module support:
	Apache 1.x and 2.0 mod_gsoap
	IIS (ISAPI)
	WinInet
	CGI
	FastCGI
	stand-alone (deamon)
- Architecture features:
	integrated memory management with automatic leak detection in debug 
mode
	compiler-based XML serialization of C and C++ data structures
	custom serializers
	DOM support
	plug-ins for extensions (message logging, statistics, etc.)
	internationalization/localization (UTF8-encoded UCS4, MB strings)
	numerous examples included

- Robert van Engelen

Robert van Engelen: Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
Florida State University, 162 J. Love Bldg., Tallahassee, FL32306-4530
Offices: 162LOV/471DSL, (850)644-9661/645-0309, Fax: (850)644-0058
Email: [email protected], URL: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen