Articles

This article by Lahiru Gunathilake illustrates the latest performance results of Apache Axis2/C and compares with the performance of Axis2/C with Guththila XML parser and libxml2 XML parser.

This article by Ruwan Linton is the second of a series of articles on Apache Synapse. In this series, you will learn what Synapse is, how it works, and how you can use it to solve common enterprise problems. You will understand some of the advanced features of Synapse, how you can extend it, and also some of its limitations.

Axis2/C is becoming the most featured and stable and enterprise grade Web Services engine for C. Written in C, memory handling in Axis2/C is very crucial. This article written by Manjula Peiris discusses a few important tips related to memory management in Axis2/C. The article is recommended reading for Web service implementors, module writers and consumers of Web services in Axis2/C.

This article by Michael Galpin explores the WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) Eclipse plug-in and how it can help you develop Web services. 

In this article by Deepal Jayasinghe, he discusses exposing data as Web services.

In this introductory tutorial, Dimuthu Gamage explains how you can use the contract first model, which is also called WSDL mode, to write your Web services and clients using WSO2 WSF/PHP.

In this article by Damitha Kumarage, he describes calling Web services from a shell environment.

Authentication is the mechanism for identifying one's self. in the context of the Internet, authentication serves as the primary means for filtering access to protected resources. HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is an accepted standard for exchanging hypermedia in a distributed and collaborative environment. HTTP 1.1, [1] is the latest version of the protocol, in popular consumption.

Authentication on HTTP 1.1 is a framework supporting two popular mechanisms for requesting and providing credentials in non-secure environments [2]. One, being the simple passing of username and password as encoded text, known as Basic Access Authentication and the other based on cryptographic hashes, known as Digest Access Authentication.

This article by Senaka L. Fernando serves as a guide to using  Extensions for HTTP Authentication in Axis2/C.