Axis2/C 1.0 Released

Apache Axis2/C 1.0 was released a few days ago. Well that was last Sunday, the 6th. The release was delayed by a few weeks due to improvements and fixes suggested.

Wow! what an achievement, of course I am happy to be (however vanishingly small) a part of the great amount of human hours used in this exercise.

In the meantime, Apache Rampart/C project, the WS-Security implementation for Axis2/C has plans to release 0.90 by the end of this week. We found a small memory issue with our xml canonicalization (xml-c14n) implementation yesterday, and it is fixed now. You can test the release artifacts from here.

WSO2 Identity Solution Alpha Released!

This is bit of an old news. As I was not at home for the last week, I could not blog about this earlier than this.

WSO2 Identity Solution is an open source implementation of Microsoft CardSpace, which is a standards-based solution for working with and managing diverse digital identities.

I started working on the Identity Solution by accident, when someone was needed to write an apache module for this solution. Although there were many who knew better, and I knew nothing about writing apache modules, I got the chance since I was jobless (not exactly!) then. Afterall, it is the main project that I'm working on at the moment. At the first shot at it, things didn't look so good. I was trying to write the whole module using very low-level APIs, not knowing that there are a lot many comprehensive abstractions that can be used. Handler concept, which is new in Apache2 made my task a few orders of magnitude easier than it would have been in Apache 1.3.

Nick Kew's companion website of the book "The Apache Modules Book" came in handy when I needed any bright ideas. I wonder how efficient I would have been if I had the book at hand. Thanks Nick, for the great effort.

Release note:

We are happy to announce the alpha release of WSO2 Identity Solution.

This release can be downloaded from the following location:

http://dist.wso2.org/products/solutions/identity/alpha/

Key features of this release includes

* An Apache2 module to enable CardSpace authentication on a
web application.
* A ServletFilter component to enable CardSpace authentication
on a Java servlet based web application.
* Two samples explaining the use of the above components.
(Please follow instructions given in the README files)

Release artifacts :
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Binary distribution  - identity-solution-alpha-bin.zip
Source distribution  - identity-solution-alpha-src.zip

Project Information
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Web site              - http://www.wso2.org/projects/identity
Issue tracker         - https://wso2.org/jira/browse/IDENTITY
Mailing list          - identity-dev@wso2.org


Thanks,
WSO2 Identity Solution Team