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Interaction between JAX-WS client and service using CXF transport is represented in the following figure:
Simplified Client Workflow:
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TRANSPORT_IDENTIFIER is unique transport id (normally in form “http://apache.org/transports/PROTOCOL_PREFIX”).
For Spring configuration, the following could be used instead:
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What is the start point to understand the CXF transport layer and implement own transport? I would recommend It makes sense to read CXF documentation //cxf.apache.org/docs/transports.html CXF transports overview and analyze source code of existing CXF transports (Local and JMS once are more straightforward). They are located into packages: org.apache.cxf.transport.local and org.apache.cxf.transport.jms correspondingly.