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There a couple small areas where we haven't replicated all of the XFire functionality yet. Namely the JiBX and XMLBeans databindings. These will be ported for CXF 2.1. The only other reason not to migrate to CXF that we see is a requirement for Java 1.4. Although, we would encourage users to take a look at using CXF on Java 1.4 via Retrotranslator (but be sure to read this thread first).

Service Factories

XFire included serveral service factories for building services. CXF also includes service factories, but the concept has been improved somewhat to make them easier to use. CXF now includes the concept of ServerFactoryBeans which produce Servers, ClientFactoryBeans which produce Clients, and ClientProxyFactoryBeans which produce Client proxies.

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