Release Plan


Tuesday (6th May)	Release and test RCs
Tuesday/Wednesday	Start packing, we are providing following package list. [http://wso2.org/wiki/display/wsfphp/WSF PHP 1.3.0 artifact names]
Thursday/Friday	Testing the packages
Friday	Uploading the artifact
Monday(12th May)	Publish the release.

Here are the Major Changes Since Last Release

1. Schema constructs support improvements for WSDL mode including
SimpleType restricitons, ComplexType restrictions/extensions and attributes.
2. WSDL Import support.
3. Support for WSDLs with multiple bindings, API is provided to pick
the preferred bindings.
4. wsdl2php code generation improvements to support the improvements done in
WSDL mode.
5. HTTP Basic Authentication Support added.
6. SOAP Messages with Attachments support (SWA) added.
7. Custom Security token support added.

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

11. wsdl2php.php script. This script can generate PHP classes for services
and clients for a given WSDL to be used with WSDL Mode .