CXF supports JAX-RS (JSR-311), Java API for RESTful Web Services. JAX-RS provides a more standard way to build RESTful services in Java. CXF 2.2-SNAPSHOT supports the final version of JSR-311 API while CXF 2.1.x currently supports only 0.8 version of JSR-311 API . JAX-RS related demos are located under samples/jax_rs directory (CXF 2.2 and CXF 2.1 only).
This documentation will refer to JSR-311 API 1.0 only 0.8 version of JSR-311 API .

JAX-RS related demos are located under samples/jax_rs directory (CXF 2.2 and CXF 2.1 only).
This documentation will refer to JSR-311 API 1.0 .

Migrating from 0.8 to 1.0

The following major changes in 1.0 will most likely affect users migrating from 0.8

• @ProduceMime and @ConsumeMime have been replaced with @Produces and @Consumes respectively
• HttpHeaders has had some of its methods returning a string representation of Locale updated to return Locale instead

As JAX-RS API 1.0 is currently supported in CXF 2.2-SNAPSHOT, it's also worth noting of the following changes in dependencies :

• Spring version have changed from 2.0.8 in 2.1.x to 2.5.6
• jaxb-api version has changed to javax.xml.bind/jaxb-api/2.1
• jaxb-impl version has changed to com.sun.xml.bind/jaxb-impl/2.1.7

Additionally, org.apache.cxf/cxf-rt-databinding-aegis/2.2-SNAPSHOT compile-time dependency has been added

Maven dependencies

The following 3rd-party dependencies are used when building CXF JAX-RS implementation :

1. javax.ws.rs/jsr311-api/0.8 -> javax.ws.rs/jsr311-api/1.0

available from either

<repository>
            <id>java.net.2</id>
            <name>Java Net 2 Repository</name>
            <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2</url>
</repository> 

or from a central maven repository

2. org.apache.abdera groupId : abdera-core, abdera-parser and abdera-extension-json artifacts, version 0.4.0-incubating. Available from

<repository>
<id>apache.incubating</id>
<name>Apache Incubating Repository</name>
<url>http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository</url>
</repository>

3. org.springframework/spring-core/2.5.6

4. org.codehaus.jettison/jettison/1.0.1

5. org.apache.xmlbeans/xmlbeans/2.3.0 - compile time

Please check the pom.xml for the list of cxf components used by the JAX-RS implementation

CXF JAX-RS bundle

A standalone JAX-RS bundle is now available which may be of interest to users doing JAX-RS work only. Some updates to the pom is needed to ensure some of the artifacts pulled in as part of a dependency on cxf-api are actually omitted - contributions are welcome.

Understanding the basics

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:jaxrs="http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://cxf.apache.org/jaxrs
http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/jaxrs.xsd">

  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-jaxrs-binding.xml" />
  <import resource="classpath:META-INF/cxf/cxf-servlet.xml" />

  <jaxrs:server id="customerService" address="/">
    <jaxrs:serviceBeans>
      <ref bean="customerServicecustomerBean" />
    </jaxrs:serviceBeans>
  </jaxrs:server>

  <bean id="customerServicecustomerBean" class="demo.jaxrs.server.CustomerService" />
</beans>

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