WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP 1.2.0 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of WSO2 WSF/PHP 1.2.0.

WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP (WSO2 WSF/PHP), is an open source,
enterprise grade, PHP extension for providing and consuming Web Services in PHP. WSF/PHP is a complete solution for building and deploying Web services and is the only PHP extension with the widest range of WS-*  specification implementations. It's Key features include, secure services and clients with WS-Security support, binary attachments with MTOM, automatic WSDL generation (code first model), WSDL mode for both services and clients (contract first model) and interoperability with .NET and J2EE.

You can download the release from:
http://wso2.org/downloads/wsf/php

Project home page:
http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/php

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Key Features
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1. Client API to consume Web services
    * WSMessage class to handle message level options
    * WSClient class with both one way and two way service invocation support
    * Option of using functions in place of object oriented API with ws_request

2. Service API to provide Web services
    * WSMessage class to handle message level options
    * WSService class with support for both one way and two way operations
    * Option of using functions in place of object oriented API with ws_reply

3. Attachments with MTOM
    * Binary optimized
    * Non-optimized (Base64 binary)

4. WS-Addressing
    * Version 1.0
    * Submission

5. WS-Security
    * UsernameToken and Timestamp
    * Encryption
    * Signing
    * WS-SecurityPolicy based configuration

6. WS-Reliable Messaging
    * Single channel two way reliable messaging

7. WSDL Generation for Server Side
    * WSDL generation based on annotations and function signatures, and
      serving on ?wsdl or ?wsdl2 requests

8. WSDL mode support for both client and server side
    * Write services and client based on a given WSDL
    * WS-Addressing and WS-SecurityPolicy is supported in WSDL mode

9. REST Support
    * Expose a single service script both as SOAP and REST service

10. Provide easy to use classes for common services
    * Consume some well known services such as Yahoo search ,Flickr and Amazon  services using predefined classes

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Major Changes Since Last Release
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1. WSDL mode code was reimplemented to support WSDL 1.1 as well as WSDL 2.0.
  In addition, WSDL mode is also capable of supporting WS-SecurityPolicy and
  WS-Addressing now.

2. WSHeader class was improved to support adding custom soap headers with
  child elements.

3. Supports exposing member functions defined in PHP classes as Web service operations.

4. Many bugs related to MTOM, WSDL generation and WS-Security were fixed.

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Reporting Problems
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Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at:
      https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSFPHP

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Contact Us
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Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSF/PHP.

-- WSO2 WSF/PHP Team --