WSO2 WSF/C 1.3.0

WSO2 Web Services Framework for C version 1.3.0 has been released.
The new release came with many improvements including memory leak fixes and bug fixes. Also it has changed the default parser to Guththila, which is optimized for SOAP processing.
Get more details from the project home page about the latest release.
WSO2 WSF/C is the base framework for many web services frameworks including WSO2 WSF/PHP.

WSO2 WSF/C with Apache HTTP server

Following section will show you how to use WSO2 Web services framework for C (WSF/C) with the Apache HTTP server in linux environment.
First download and install apache2 server. Please follow the instructions in INSTALL file.
Then download WSF/C and configure with the following option

%./configure --with-apache2=/path/to/apache2 --prefix=/your/wsfc_home/directory
%make
%make install

Once you do make install, this will create a libmod_axis2.so inside WSFC_HOME/lib. Copy this file to apache2/modules directory. Now please open the httpd.conf file inside conf directory. Add following entries to the file. These will be your configurations to the axis2/c web services engine.

LoadModule axis2_module modules/libmod_axis2.so
    Axis2RepoPath /your/path/to/wsf/c/home
    Axis2LogFile /tmp/apache_axis2.log
    Axis2LogLevel debug
    Axis2MaxLogFileSize 32
    <Location /axis2>
        SetHandler axis2_module
    </Location>

Done? Perfect. Let's start the server

%./httpd -k start

If the default port (i.e. 80) is in use try another port such as 8080. You can change the port in the conf/httpd.conf file

Listen 8080

Open s browser and enter the following address as the url

http://localhost:8080/axis2/services

If all goes well, this should show the deployed services. Usually these are samples comes with WSF/C.

WSO2 Web Services Framework for C language

As the B2B communication becomes loosely coupled and automated in a distributed environment, web services technology is blooming as the perfect solution for numerous business applications. With the ability of multiple legacy applications to be integrated to form a single system and allowing various clients, dispersed in contrasting platforms in different coordinates of the world to communicate are the major challenges faced by many software architects and developers.
As a solution for this WSO2 has introduced a series of web services middle-ware that can be used to implement your business application. Amongst them WSO2 Web services framework for C (WSF/C) can become appealing to the C, C++ community.
If you are a PHP or Ruby developer you have the option of using respective extensions of WSF/C in these languages. Please check WSF/PHP and WSF/Ruby for more details.

WSO2 WSF/C 1.2.0 is released

The Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) is an open source library written to provide and consume web services in C programming language. The framework is released under Apache license 2.0. That means it comes with a $0 cost and liberty to redistribute.
WSF/C also integrates many Apache projects. Using the famous Apache Axis2/C as the web services engine, it has also accoutered with Apache Rampart/C, Apache Sandesha2/C and Apache Savan/C.
Armed by all these WSF/C provides web services security, reliability and eventing support with just a single download. And it is inter-operable with Microsoft .Net, WSO2 Web Services Application Server and other J2EE implementation.
Moreover, WSO2 WSF/C is the base framework for other web service frameworks like WSF/PHP and WSF/Ruby.
WSO2 Team has announced the release of 1.2.0 last week. You may download the release here

WSO2's WSF/PHP and Apache Ramaprt/C

Following diagram shows how the WSO2 WSF/PHP is arranged...



Basically the WSO2 WSF/PHP is a PHP extension. It can be seen as the upper layer of a 3-core wire.
And inside it there is another layer wrapping many other products, which we call the WSO2 WSF/C. These products are the implementations of WS-* of specifications including Apache Rampart/C, Apache Sandesha2/C, Apache Savan/C.
A PHP user will basically consume/provide web services by using the upper WSF/PHP layer. The core specifications and implementations are transparent to the PHP user to make the life easier. But sometimes it's worth to know how exactly are the inner components arranged. :)

In order to provide security, WSO2 WSF/PHP uses Apache Rampart/C. Actually via WSO2 WSF/C. Apache Rampart/C is the security module for the Apache Axis2/C engine, which the WSF/PHP depends on. You may refer my this blog entryto see how to write a PHP script to encrypt a SOAP message.