Apache axis2/c is a web services engine implemented in the c programming language. it is based on the extensible and flexible axis2 architecture. apache axis2/c can be used to provide and consume webservices. it has been implemented with portability and ability to embed in mind, hence could be used as a web services enabler in other software.

apache axis2/c supports soap 1.1 and soap 1.2, as well as rest style of webservices. a single service could be exposed both as a soap style as well as a rest style service simultaneously. it also has built in mtom support, that can be used to exchange binary data.

apache axis2/c is efficient, modular and is designed with extensibility. the extensible design allows it to support the full ws-* stack with the concept of modules. apache axis2/c is the web services engine that supports the most number of ws-* specification implementations in c, with guaranteed interoperability. this enables using c in service oriented architecture (soa) implementations, and would be very useful when integrating legacy systems into soa.