gsoap_2.7.17

================================================================================ Thanks for using gSOAP! The gSOAP toolkit provides a cross-platform software development toolkit for C and C++ server and client Web service applications, and simplifies the overall use of XML in any type of application. The toolkit supports SOAP 1.1/1.2 RPC encoding and document/literal styles, WSDL 1.1, MTOM/MIME/DIME attachments (streaming), SOAP-over-UDP, request-response and one-way messaging. The toolkit also supports WS-Addressing and WS-Security, with several other WS-* available or under development. See the official open-source gSOAP website http://gsoap2.sourceforge.net for project status and latest news. * The gSOAP 'soapcpp2' compiler and code generator and 'stdsoap2' runtime engine are stable since version release 2.1.3. * The gSOAP 'wsdl2h' WSDL/schema parser and code generator is stable since wsdl2h version release 1.1.0. The 'wsdl2h' tool fully supports WSDL 1.1 and XML schemas. The software is provided "as is", without any warranty. However, gSOAP has received a lot of support from users and has been extensively tested in the real world. We also continue to improve gSOAP and add new features. ================================================================================ WHAT'S COOL? ================================================================================ The gSOAP 'wsdl2h' tool is a gSOAP application itself, which demonstrates the capabilities of the generic XML handling by the toolkit to parse WSDL, XML schemas, and SOAP/XML. The gSOAP toolkit supports streaming technologies to expedite SOAP/XML and MTOM/MIME attachment transfers of potentially unlimited data lengths. The gSOAP toolkit is the only toolkit that supports the serialization of native C and C++ data types directly in XML. You can use it to export and import your application data in XML without having to write wrapper routines. The gSOAP toolkit ensures as small memory footprint. XML is a processed as a transient format and not buffered. Many optimizations have been applied to reduce resource requirements and to expedite XML parsing. The gSOAP toolkit provides stand-alone HTTP(S) web server functionality as well as Apache mod and IIS hooks. Also CGI and FastCGI is possible. A web server example demonstrating the stand-alone functionality is included in the package. ================================================================================ PACKAGE ================================================================================ This distribution package contains platform-independent source code. Pre-built 'soapcpp2' and 'wsdl2h' binaries are included for the following platforms: * Win32 i386 compatible * Linux i386 compatible * MAC OS X universal The binaries are located in 'gsoap/bin'. Important: these 'wsdl2h' binaries use the default configuration without SSL support (no HTTPS site access). To configure and build the toolkit binaries and libraries, please see the installation instructions in the 'INSTALLATION' section below. ================================================================================ INSTALLATION ================================================================================ This part explains how gSOAP is built on your platform. Requirements to configure and build the package: 1. Automake tools (make and GNU m4) to configure and build 2. Bison http://www.gnu.org/software/bison or the alternative Yacc 3. Flex http://flex.sourceforge.net 4. OpenSSL (for optional HTTPS) http://www.openssl.org 5. Zlib (for optional compression) http://www.zlib.net 6. Pthreads or win32 threads (optional) The open source licenses for these tools are compatible with gSOAP licensing under GPL and commercial licensing. Some example applications won't compile without OpenSSL and Pthreads. Win32 binaries and project code is included in this package. Win32 users can start right away without autoconf/automake. The 'soapcpp2.exe' binary compiler and 'wsdl2h.exe' WSDL parser are included in 'gsoap/bin/win32', see also the 'gsoap/VisualStudio2005' folder for the tool project files. The 'soapcpp2.exe' and 'wsdl2h.exe' tools are command-line based and should be invoked from within the IDE to process WSDL, XSD, and gSOAP service specification header files: .wsdl .xsd --> wsdl2h.exe --> .h (special .h formatted with gSOAP annotations) .h --> soapcpp2.exe --> .h .c .cpp .xml ... Symbian instructions and example code is located in 'gsoap/Symbian'. Palm OS support is no longer available for this release. The latest stable release with Palm OS support is gSOAP 2.7.8c. To build gSOAP on your platform using autoconf/automake, please enter the following commands: $ ./configure $ make $ make install This will install the executables and libraries on your system (and you need root access to do so). To build without OpenSSL support, use: $ ./configure --disable-openssl $ make $ make install To configure and build the examples, use the --enable-samples option: $ ./configure --enable-samples To configure and build the libraries in DEBUG mode, which produces 'SENT.log', 'RECV.log' and 'TEST.log' files for message logs and gSOAP engine event logs, use: $ ./configure --enable-debug If you want to install the executables in your local folder, enter: $ ./configure $ make $ make install exec_prefix=$HOME To build your projects, you need the following executables: soapcpp2 the gSOAP stub/skeleton generator wsdl2h the gSOAP WSDL/schema parser and code generator These are created after 'make' in 'gsoap/src' and 'gsoap/wsdl'. Note that pre-built executables for select platforms can be found in 'gsoap/bin'. You also need the following libraries (build from stdsoap2.c[pp]): libgsoap++.a C++ runtime libgsoapck++.a C++ runtime with HTTP cookie support libgsoapssl++.a C++ runtime with cookies, zlib, and SSL libgsoap.a C runtime libgsoapck.a C runtime with HTTP cookie support libgsoapssl.a C runtime with cookies, zlib, and SSL This version of gSOAP requires SSL support with OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later. Alternatively, you can use the stdsoap2.c[pp] source code to build your project instead of the libraries (libraries are all derived from stdsoap2.c[pp]). See the gSOAP documentation on how to enable HTTP cookies, Zlib compression, and SSL support in stdsoap2.c[pp]. For developers: there is a command file ./makemake It can be used to generate the required ./configure script. This will create the Makefiles: $ ./makemake $ make You can also execute the following steps from the commandline: $ aclocal $ autoheader $ automake --add-missing $ autoconf $ automake $ ./configure --enable-samples $ make If the above fails, try the following: * remove autom4te.cache * get the latest config.guess and config.sub from GNU ================================================================================ GETTING STARTED ================================================================================ The gSOAP 'wsdl2h' tool converts WSDLs into a gSOAP header file for processing with the gSOAP stub/skeleton generator 'soapcpp2' to generate XML serialization, stubs, and skeletons code to build Web services applications. Use 'wsdl2h' followed by 'soapcpp2' to translate an entire set of WSDL and XML schemas into representative C or C++ data structures and associated XML parsers. You can also use the gSOAP 'soapcpp2' tool directly on existing C/C++ data structure declarations to create XML serialization routines for these types to simplify the storage of data in XML. Example translation of WSDL to code in two steps: $ wsdl2h -s -o calc.h http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/calc.wsdl $ soapcpp2 calc.h The 'calc.h' header file