Hi, all. I'm currently evaluating web service frameworks that might provide our web services on the server side. CXF is a top contender, but I'm a little confused about its maturity. It is still in the Apache incubator, however it has releases that appear to me to be "production" releases (e.g. 2.0.1, as opposed to 2.0-MC1 or 2.0-RC1, etc.).
This leads me to some (related) questions: Is CXF considered production ready? If so, is anyone using it in production systems, and what are people's experiences regarding its production readiness? An unrelated question that may be pretty ignorant (sorry) is why Apache is sponsoring CXF rather than modifying the web service framework (Axis2) that it already is invested in? Was it deemed that it would take more effort to modify Axis2 to support JAX-WS, etc., as to start with XFire and do it? Thanks in advance, Greg
