[CONF] Apache CXF 2.0 Documentation: Why CXF? (page created)

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Page Created : CXF20DOC : Why CXF? Why CXF? has been created by Dan Diephouse (Jun 14, 2007). Content: With so many options available to developers today in the web services space, one of the questions worth asking is why should I use CXF? In no particular order, here are some of the reasons you might want to use CXF: JAX-WS Support CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs which make building web services easy. JAX-WS encompasses many different areas: Generating WSDL from Java classes and generating Java classes from WSDL Provider APIs to create Spring Integration Spring is a first class citizen with CXF. CXF supports the Spring 2.0 XML syntax, making it trivial to declare endpoints which are backed by Spri and inject clients into your application. Aegis Databinding Aegis is our own databinding library that makes development of code first services incredibly easy. Unlike JAXB, you don't need annotations at all. It also works correctly with a variety of datatypes such as Lists, Maps, Dates, etc. right out of the box. If you're building a prototype web services thats really invaluable as it means you have to do very little work to get up and running (and one of the primary reasons XFire was started a while back) RESTful services CXF enables the development of RESTful services via annotations using the HTTP Binding. Using URI templates and annotations I can bind a service operation to arbitrary URL/verb combinations. For instance, you can annotate a getCustom method with @Get @HttpResource("/customers/{id}"). CXF will then listen for GET requests on that URL and using the parameter at the {id} location as a parameter to the service. WS-* Support CXF supports a variety of web service specifications including WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Security. Apache Licensed CXF comes under the liberal Apache license.

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