[wsf-c-dev] Issues for a next generation C stack

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

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>> - External dependencies.  Which external libraries should we take a
>> dependency on and how dependent should we be on them? libxml2 and curl
>> are two obvious candidates.
>>  
>>
> As I remeber we talked about writing our own parser embeded into axiom.
> So that removes dependancy on libxml2. How about improving our
> own transport instead of using curl which will save us from another
> dependancy?
Dropping dependencies is always welcome. However, maintaining our own 
transport implementation has proved to be expensive. e.g. We still miss 
keep-alive support in Axis2/C. Also, something like curl gives an array 
of options, not only http.

Samisa...