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CXF provides a broad variety of touch points which your application can take advantage of. This guide should give you a quick options an overview of some of the features and options at your disposal.

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If you are using the JAX-WS frontend, JAX-WS supports the concept of logical and protocol handlers. Protocol handlers allow you to manipulate the message in its raw, often XML-based, form - i.e. a SAAJ SOAPMessage. Logical handlers allow you to manipulate the message after its already been bound from the protocol to the JAXB object that your service will receive. See this article to learn more about JAX-WS handlers.

Interceptors

Interceptors provide access to all the features that CXF has to offer - allowing you to do just about anything, including manipulating the raw bytes or XML of the message.

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CXF provides facilities to transmit binary data efficiently via a standard called MTOM. Normally binary data inside an XML message must be Base64 encoded. This results in processing overhead and increases message size by 30%. If you use MTOM, CXF will send/receive MIME messages with the message stored as a MIME attachment, just like email. This results in much more efficient communication and allows you to transmit messages much larger than memory.

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Invokers allow you to customize how a particular method or backend service object is executed. This is particular particularly useful if your underlying service objects are not plain javabeans and instead need to be created or looked up via a custom factory.