Hi. Here at CA Technologies, we are looking for a library to support our SOAP client side code. I have come across Apache Axis C++ and Apache Axis2/C. What is the relation between the two libraries? With the “2” in the name, Axis2/C gives me impression of being maintained and more current. Is my impression correct?
We are looking for a cross platform library. Our range of platforms is at least Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX. Does Axis2/C support all of these or more? We are also looking for a library with features. The features we are looking for are HTTP proxy authentication, NTLM authentication, Kerberos authentication. Are these features supported? One thing that concerns me with Axis2/C is that the last release (1.6.0) was in 2009. I have checked mailing list archives and there is some activity. Why has the least release been so long ago? While browsing the mailing list archives, I have noticed a bug report of Solaris compilation failure. Since Solaris is one of the platforms that we need to support, this looks like Axis/C 1.6.0 would not support it out of the box. Assuming the problem is fixed in development sources in your subversion repository, we could use development sources. Though that gives me less confidence in recommending Axis2/C for our use. Are trunk/head development sources stable for production use? -- VZ
