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Apache CXF: An Open-Source Services Framework

Overview

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. 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.

News

April 10, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.11/3.0.13 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the latest patch releases. Over 100 JIRA issues were fixed for 3.1.11 which many of those fixes back ported to 3.0.13.

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered. Downloads are available here.

January 31, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.10 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the latest patch releases. Over 25 JIRA issues were fixed for 3.1.10.

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered. Downloads are available here.

Features

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 WS-I Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConverstation, and WS-Trust (partial).
Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models.

CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs. CXF JAX-WS support includes so me extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases.

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.

For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS frontend.

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.x 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 comb ination with any type of transport.

To get started using CXF, check out the downloads, the user's guide, or the mailing lists to get more information!

Goals

General

High Performance
Extensible
Intuitive & Easy to Use

Support for Standards

JSR Support

JAX-WS - Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 - JSR-224
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform - JSR-181
JAX-RS - The Java API for RESTful Web Services - JSR-311
SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) - JSR-67

WS-* and related Specifications Support

Basic support: WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
Quality of Service: WS-Reliable Messaging
Metadata: WS-Policy, WSDL 1.1 - Web Service Definition Language
Communication Security: WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust (partial support)
Messaging Support: WS-Addressing, SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

Transports: HTTP, Servlet, JMS, In-VM and many others via the Camel transport for CXF such as SMTP/POP3, TCP and Jabber
Protocol Bindings: SOAP, REST/HTTP, pure XML
Data bindings: JAXB 2.x, Aegis, Apache XMLBeans, Service Data Objects (SDO), JiBX
Formats: XML Textual, JSON, FastInfoset
Extensibility API allows additional bindings for CXF, enabling additional message format support such as CORBA/IIOP

Flexible Deployment

Lightweight containers: deploy services in Jetty, Tomcat or Spring-based containers
JBI integration: deploy as a service engine in a JBI container such as ServiceMix, OpenESB or Petals
Java EE integration: deploy services in Java EE application servers such as Apache Geronimo, JOnAS, Redhat JBoss, OC4J, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere
Standalone Java client/server

Support for Multiple Programming Languages

Full support for JAX-WS 2.x client/server programming model
JAX-WS 2.x synchronous, asynchronous and one-way API's
JAX-WS 2.x Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII) API
JAX-RS for RESTful clients
Support for wrapped and non-wrapped styles
XML messaging API
Support for JavaScript and ECMAScript 4 XML (E4X) - both client and server
Support for CORBA
Support for JBI with ServiceMix

Tooling

Generating Code: WSDL to Java, WSDL to JavaScript, Java to JavaScript
Generating WSDL: Java to WSDL, XSD to WSDL, IDL to WSDL, WSDL to XML
Adding Endpoints: WSDL to SOAP, WSDL to CORBA, WSDL to service
Generating Support Files: WSDL to IDL
Validating Files: WSDL Validation

Getting Involved

Apache CXF is currently under heavy development. To get involve d you can subscribe to the mailing lists. You can also grab the code from the Source Repository. You also need to read about Building CXF. For Eclipse users, you should read about Setting up Eclipse.

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Apache CXF™: An Open-Source Services Framework

Overview

Apache CXF™ is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. 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.

News

April 10, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.11/3.0.13 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the latest patch releases. Over 100 JIRA issues were fixed for 3.1.11 which many of those fixes back ported to 3.0.13.

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered. Downloads are available here.

January 31, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.10 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the latest patch releases. Over 25 JIRA issues were fixed for 3.1.10.

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered. Downloads are available here.

Features

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 WS-I Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConverstation, and WS-Trust (partial).
Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models.

CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs. CXF JAX-W S support includes some extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases.

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.

For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS frontend.

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.x 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 JS ON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport.

To get started using CXF, check out the downloads, the user's guide, or the mailing lists to get more information!

Goals

General

High Performance
Extensible
Intuitive & Easy to Use

Support for Standards

JSR Support

JAX-WS - Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 - JSR-224
Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform - JSR-181
JAX-RS - The Java API for RESTful Web Services - JSR-311
SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) - JSR-67

WS-* and related Specifications Support

Basic support: WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
Quality of Service: WS-Reliable Messaging
Metadata: WS-Policy, WSDL 1.1 - Web Service Definition Language
Communication Security: WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust (partial support)
Messaging Support: WS-Addressing, SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

Transports: HTTP, Servlet, JMS, In-V M and many others via the Camel transport for CXF such as SMTP/POP3, TCP and Jabber
Protocol Bindings: SOAP, REST/HTTP, pure XML
Data bindings: JAXB 2.x, Aegis, Apache XMLBeans, Service Data Objects (SDO), JiBX
Formats: XML Textual, JSON, FastInfoset
Extensibility API allows additional bindings for CXF, enabling additional message format support such as CORBA/IIOP

Flexible Deployment

Lightweight containers: deploy services in Jetty, Tomcat or Spring-based containers
JBI integration: deploy as a service engine in a JBI container such as ServiceMix, OpenESB or Petals
Java EE integration: deploy services in Java EE application servers such as Apache Geronimo, JOnAS, Redhat JBoss, OC4J, Oracle WebLogic, and IBM WebSphere
Standalone Java client/server

Support for Multiple Programming Languages

Full support for JAX-WS 2.x client/server programming model
JAX-WS 2.x synchronous, asynchronous and one-way API's
JAX-WS 2.x Dynamic Invocation Interface (DII) API
JAX-RS for RESTful clients
Support for wrapped and non-wrapped styles
XML messaging API
Support for JavaScript and ECMAScript 4 XML (E4X) - both client and server
Support for CORBA
Support for JBI with ServiceMix

Tooling

Generating Code: WSDL to Java, WSDL to JavaScript, Java to JavaScript
Generating WSDL: Java to WSDL, XSD to WSDL, IDL to WSDL, WSDL to XML
Adding Endpoints: WSDL to SOAP, WSDL to CORBA, WSDL to service
Generating Support Files: WSDL to IDL
Validating Files: WSDL Validation

Getting Involved

Apache CXF is currently under heavy develo pment. To get involved you can subscribe to the mailing lists. You can also grab the code from the Source Repository. You also need to read about Building CXF. For Eclipse users, you should read about Setting up Eclipse.

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Module	Filename
WS-Addressing	`cxf-rt-ws-addr-[version].jar`
WS-Policy	`cxf-rt-ws-policy-[version].jar`
WS-ReliableMessaging	`cxf-rt-ws-rm-[version].jar`
WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust (client-side)	`cxf-rt-ws-secur ity-[version].jar`
WS-MetadataExchange	`cxf-rt-ws-mex-[version].jar`

Module	Filename
Javascript frontend	`cxf-rt-frontend-js-[version].jar`
JAX-RS frontend	`cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs-[version].jar`
JAX-WS frontend	`cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws-[version].jar`
Simple frontend	`cxf-rt-frontend-simple-[version].jar`

Module	Filename
HTTP, Servlet	`cxf-rt-transports-http-[version].jar`
HTTP-Jetty	`cxf-rt-transports-http-jetty-[version].jar`
HTTP-OSGI	`cxf-rt-transports-http-osgi-[version].jar`
JBI	`integration\cxf-rt-transports-jbi-[version].jar`
JMS	`cxf-rt-bindings-jbi-[version].jar`
Local (In-VM)	`cxf-rt-transports-local-[version].jar`

Module	Filename	Notes
coloc	`cxf-rt-bindings-object-[version].jar`	CXF feature that allows automatic detection of when a client and a service are stuck on the same bus and then bypasses much of the interceptor chains during processing.
CORBA	`cxf-rt-bindings-corba-[version].jar`
HTTP	`cxf-rt-bindings-http-[version].jar`
object	`cxf-rt-bindings-coloc-[version].jar`	CXF feature that allows (when combined with the local transport), directly passing objects from client/server in the same bus without marshalling.
Pure XML	`cxf-rt-bindings-xml-[version].jar`
SOAP	`cxf-rt-bindings-soap-[version].jar`

Module	Filename
JAXB	`cxf-rt-databinding-jaxb-[version].jar`
SDO	`cxf-rt-databinding-sdo-[version].jar`
Aegis	`cxf-rt-databinding-aegis-[version].jar`
XMLBeans	`cxf-rt-databinding-xmlbeans-[version].jar`

Common Schemas	`cxf-common-schemas-[version].jar`
Common Utilities	`cxf-common-utilities-[version].jar`
Core	`cxf-rt-core-[version].jar`
Javadoc	`cxf-api-[version].jar`
Javascript	`cxf- rt-javascript-[version].jar`
JBI Bindings	`cxf-rt-bindings-jbi-[version].jar`
JBI	`integration\cxf-integration-jbi-[version].jar`
JCA	`integration\cxf-integration-jca-[version].jar`
JMX	`cxf-rt-management-[version].jar`
Manifest	`cxf-manifest-[version].jar`
Schema validation used for Aegis	`cxf-wstx-msv-validation-[version].jar`
Tooling	`cxf-tools-*-[version].jar`
XJC-Utils	`cxf-xjc-[boolean,bug671,dv,ts]-[version].jar`
Spring	CXF uses Spring by default

Module	Status
JIBX	GSoC project not yet integrated into CXF, target: 2.4.0
WSDL 2.0	GSoC project just started
Castor	Not Started
WS-Atomic Transactions	Not Started
WS-Coordination	Not Started
WS-Eventing	Not Started
WS-BusinessActivity	Not Started
WS-Transf er	Not Started

Company	Contribution
	Licenses for JProfiler
	License for YourKit
	License for Structure101

Apache CXF: An Open-Source Services Framework

Overview

News

April 10, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.11/3.0.13 released!

Features

Goals

General

Support for Standards

JSR Support

WS-* and related Specifications Support

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

Flexible Deployment

Support for Multiple Programming Languages

Tooling

Getting Involved

Apache CXF™: An Open-Source Services Framework

Overview

News

April 10, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.11/3.0.13 released!

January 31, 2017 - Apache CXF 3.1.10 released!

Features

Goals

General

Support for Standards

JSR Support

WS-* and related Specifications Support

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

Flexible Deployment

Support for Multiple Programming Languages

Tooling

Getting Involved

Mailing Lists

Apache CXF Mailing Lists

Apache CXF IRCs

Apache CXF User Lists

Mailing Lists

Apache CXF Mailing Lists

Apache CXF IRCs

Apache CXF User Lists

Project Status

Web Services Standards Support Modules

Frontend Programming Modules

Transport Modules

Protocol Binding Modules

Data Binding Modules

General Modules

Outstanding Modules

Project Status

Web Services Standards Support Modules

Frontend Programming Modules

Transport Modules

Protocol Binding Modules

Data Binding Modules

General Modules

Outstanding Modules

Special Thanks

Special Thanks

Support

Support From the Apache CXF Open Source Project

How to get help

How to get help faster

Commercial Support

Support

Support From the Apache CXF Open Source Project

How to get help

How to get help faster

Commercial Support