[wsf-c-dev] [ANN]WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP 1.2.0 Released

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

Nandika,
    Please post this to the forum. Also, send this as an ANN to PHP SOAP 
list.

Thanks,
Samisa...

Nandika Jayawardana wrote:
> WSO2 Web Services Framework for PHP v1.2.0 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
>
> ------------------
> Key Features
> ============
>
> 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 and Flickr
>       and Amazon services using predefined classes
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Major Changes Since Last Release
> ================================
> 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.
>
> ----------------------------
> Reporting Problems
> ===================
> Issues can be reported using the public JIRA available at:
>       https://wso2.org/jira/browse/WSFPHP
>
> ------------------
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>
> We welcome your feedback on this implementation.
> Thank you for your interest in WSO2 WSF/PHP.
>
> -- WSO2 WSF/PHP Team --
>
>
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