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 implements the JAX-WS APIs (version 2.0 will be TCK compliant). 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.
從這些文字，大家或許并不能看出來什么，其實這就是我比較喜歡的 Xfire 現在成為 Apache 孵化器項目，或許不久的將來會成為 Apache 的頂級項目。
XFire and Celtix Merge
Last year the XFire and Celtix communties submitted a proposal to the Apache Software Foundation for a new project called CXF (CeltiXFire). CXF is a proposed merge of the XFire and Celtix communities and code at Apache.
Now after a year of work, we've completed our 2.0 release and are very excited about it. It represents a huge step forward from XFire 1.x in terms of ease of use and features. As an XFire user, what do you have to be excited about?
- JAX-WS Specification compliance
- Improved HTTP and JMS Transports
- Spring 2.0 XML support
- RESTful services support
- Great WS-* support: WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security are all supported
- Support for JSON
- SOAP w/ Attachments support
- Improved APIs and extension points
- A larger community, which means faster development, and better support
We encourage all users who are currently evaluating XFire to use CXF instead at this point. If you are already an XFire user, you may wish to consider migrating to CXF depending on where you are in your own release cycle. We will continue to support XFire in the future with bug fix releases, but feature development will be focused on CXF.
從 Xfire 過去的官方網站可以看到以上的內容了，看來這年頭無論什么開源項目都喜歡投靠 Apache，去年最大的或許就是 Webwork 了，而最近似乎又有無數孵化器的項目 TLP 了，或許這是一種莫大的榮耀了。
雖然 Xfire 很不錯，不過一年內似乎除了小小的 bug 修改，似乎沒有什么大的動作，希望今后能夠為我們提供更加強大的 WS 功能，徹底的替代 Axis。
posted on 2007-07-05 15:36
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