'Our WSF/C represents a significant milestone in fostering this heterogeneity, streamlining the development of enterprise-class Web services, not only in C, but also an ever widening array of Web development language options,' said Sanjiva Weerawarana (pictured), CEO of WSO2, as he announced today the release of the WSO2 Web Services Framework for C 1.0.

The WSO2 Web Services Framework for C (WSF/C) 1.0 is available today. As a fully open source solution released under the Apache License 2.0, it does not carry any software licensing fees. WSO2 offers a range of service and support options for the WSO2 WSF/C 1.0.

"The WSO2 WSF/C open source framework provides the most comprehensive, enterprise-grade open source library for providing and consuming Web services in C," Weerawarana noted, adding:

"A complete solution supporting the widest range of Web services (WS*-) specification implementations, it features a “wsclient” command-line tool that enables developers to use WSF/C for consuming Web services. With the availability of WSF/C, developers can experience unprecedented ease in building robust, secure, reliable Web services in C."

The WSO2 Web Services Framework for C supports basic Web services standards, including SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 2.0. It is fully tested and provides proven interoperability with Microsoft .NET, the Apache Axis2/Java-based WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS), and other J2EE implementations. Key features of WSF/C 1.0 are:

Full support for the WS*- stack includes WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Eventing, and SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM).

Web server extensions – WSO2 WSF/C can be deployed as a server-side extension within a Web server, such as Apache Web Server or Microsoft IIS. It also includes an HTTP server and can be deployed as a stand-alone server.

Transport abstraction with the design characteristics of Axis2/C, server and client transports can be plugged in as desired. It includes an XMPP transport implementation, and developers can extend the number of supported transports using the abstraction APIs.

XML parser abstraction lets developers plug in any XML parser, similar to the plug-in capabilities for transports.

WSDL generation via the Axis2/Java code generation tool lets developers generate code for both WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 2.0. Data binding is also available with Axis Data Binding (ADB).

WSF/C has been tested on Windows XP with Microsoft Visual C++ versions 7.1 and 8.0, Linux GCC 4.1.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahunt) GCC 3.4.3, Sun Solaris 2.10 x86 GCC 3, and MacOS 10.4.10 GCC 4.0.1.