kSOAP is a lightweight SOAP library written in java and applicable for use in constrained devices. It produces bandwidth efficient SOAP messages and can run on MIDP devices as well as full J2SE devices. 

This is an alpha release of the codebase with some increased unit testing, a new xml library, bug fixes, and some abstractions that allow end-users to more easily add extensions or tests without having to modify the ksoap2 libraires.

Please report any problems to the forums. (http://ksoap2.sourceforge.net).

CHANGES 
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2.1.0-alpha 2006/03/08 Release

- Deprecated getResult in SoapSerialization envelope and replaced it with a fault throwing
getResponse().
- SF FEATURE # 1428588 Added a HttpTransport layer for use with webservices with Basic Authentication.
- SF BUG # 1442028 Null pointer exception when providing a KVMSerializable object with
a null name for the PropertyInfo object. This change protects the library from misconfigured
registered objects but provides the user with the much more informative RuntimeException
indicating "Unknown Property".
- SF BUG # 1267551 Null pointer exception when providing a KVMSerializable object with a null
namespace. Added unit test and fixed the problem. (reported by hakkikt). This change
allows KVMSerializable objects to not have to initialize the namespace.
- SF BUG # 1425810 Deserialization of objects when the xml messsage's order of
parameters changes can fail due to a logic hole in the readSerializable
method.
- Upgraded to the latest kxml2 library version 2.2.2. Unfortunately this causes approximately
a 2k increase in size of our library on the stripped down version and 4k on the "Full" ones.
- Refactorings to make the transport layer more configurable and testable.

kSOAP is a lightweight SOAP library written in java and applicable for use in constrained devices. It produces bandwidth efficient SOAP messages and can run on MIDP devices as well as full J2SE devices.

This release is the first full release since moving the kSOAP2 code over to its own project from kObjects (http://sf.net/projects/kobjects). In an effort to get the kSOAP2 project space moving forward we are getting the forums and mailing lists set up as well as creating some content for the project home page.

The files released today consist of some repackaging of the existing codebase, updates the to build script to provide some helpful dedicated targets for building suitable jars for different environments, and a minor cleanup of some of the code.

Over the next while the focus of the kSOAP2 project will be on adding unit tests to the existing codebase to prepare it for some refactoring and inclusion of feature requests or bug fixes.

CHANGES

2.0.2
- Added new targets to the build to produce various jar releases for different uses. Provided a new jar that has just the classes that it needs to run. This removes the problem some have had while pre-verifying the classes and receiving an error about a FileReader cl
ass not being found.
- Moved the target class file creation from 1.1 to 1.2 to help those building with Java 1.5. SF BUG:1415810. Thanks to jozart.
- Small code formatting cleanup.
- No bug fixes, API changes, or code flow has been modified in this release.