The Apache Incubator CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.0 release! CXF is the merge of the XFire and Celtix projects ( http://xfire.codehaus.org/XFire+and+Celtix+Merge).
Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas: * Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security. * Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF provides a JAX-WS Compliant frontend. It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java. * Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more. * Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport. This release contains the following features: * JAX-WS Compliant frontend - Apache CXF has now passed the standalone JAX-WS TCK. * Java2WSDL and WSDL2Java tools and Maven plugin * SOAP 1.1 & 1.2, XML and RESTful HTTP bindings * JAXB 2.0 Databinding support * WSDL 1.1 support * WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, and WS-Policy support * MTOM attachment support * HTTP, Servlet, JMS and Local Transports * Simple POJO service frontend * Javascript frontend * JBI Service Engine. CXF services can be deployed into any JBI compliant container (ServiceMix or OpenESB) * JCA 1.0 support, J2EE application can integrate with legacy application through JCA 1.0 support in CXF * Spring Support * JSON support with Jettison * Many other bug fixes and feature enhancements For more information see: * Website: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/ * Release Notes: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/apache-cxf-20-incubating-release-notes.html * Mailing lists: http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/mailing-lists.html * http://xfire.codehaus.org/XFire+and+Celtix+Merge If you have feedback, questions or would like to get involved in the CXF project please join the mailing lists and let us know your thoughts. The Apache Incubator CXF Team http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/ -- Dan Diephouse Envoi Solutions http://envoisolutions.com | http://netzooid.com/blog
