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WSO2 releases PHP library for SOA development


By David Worthington
September 15, 2008 — 
The developer of a library that can be used to create and consume standards-compliant Web services in PHP hopes to prove that SOA is not just for Java and .NET programmers.

WSO2’s Wsf/Php 2.0 became generally available today. The library is written in C and is based on Axis2/C (WSO2 is a major contributor to Apache).


WSO2 supports PHP data services to expose databases as a service in PHP platforms. Wsf/Php 2.0 has an array-based API as well as nested query support, and it accommodates multiple database engines through the PHP ActiveX Data Objects extension.

The library also generates Web Service Definition Language files.

“A DBA or Java guy would be happy to [create data services] in XML, but PHP people would rather write a script,” said CTO Paul Fremantle. He said Wsf/Php 2.0 includes a converter tool (dbs2php) that takes Java data service configuration files from the WSO2 stack and generates PHP files.

“Exposing databases as a service makes it easier to bootstrap PHP for SOA,” Fremantle said, noting that many PHP applications are database applications. “SOA is not just for Java and .NET guys.”

Wsf/Php 2.0 is available as a free download, but technical support charges are applicable.

Security boost
The 2.0 release broadens the library’s implementation of the WS-* Web standards, adding WS-SecureConversation for message security and WS-Trust for single sign-on. WSO2’s implementations of WS-Policy and WS-SecurityPolicy, which are used to configure security in Web services, were updated to accommodate the aforementioned standards, according to Fremantle. Additionally, Public-Key Cryptography Standards are now supported for key management.

The release also makes it possible to map a Representational State Transfer API into PHP, and it supplements standards support for caching large binary attachments.


Related Search Term(s): PHP, security, SOA & SaaS, WSO2


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