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CXF™: An Open-Source Services Framework

Overview

Apache CXF CXF™ is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. 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.

News

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Sept 18,

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2023 - Apache CXF 3.5.7, 3.6.2 and 4.

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0.3 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of our latest patch releases!  Over 15 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.01 and 3.5.6.

Downloads are available here.

June 12, 2023 - Apache CXF 3.6.1 and 4.0.2 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the our latest patch releases. !  Over 85 7 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.0.2 and 3.6.2 which many of those fixes back ported to the other branches.

This is mostly a patch release to fix problems and issues that users have encountered. However, these releases now do additional validation checks against the incoming SOAP messages. Thus, these releases may reject invalid SOAP messages that previous versions would have processed. There is an endpoint property of "soap.no.validate.parts" that can be set to true to skip some (but not all) of the additional checks.

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Downloads are available here.

May 8, 2023 - Apache CXF 3.5.6, 3.6.0 and 4.0.1 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of our latest patch releases!  Over 15 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.01 and 3.5.6.

Downloads are available Downloads are available here.

Features

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

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CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs (TCK compliant). CXF JAX-WS support includes some extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases.

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For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS (TCK compliant) frontend.

• 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.x 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.

To get started using CXF, check out the downloads, the user's guide, or the mailing lists to get more information!

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Goals

General

• High Performance
• Extensible
• Intuitive & Easy to Use

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• JAX-WS - Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 - JSR-224
• Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform - JSR-181
• JAX-RS - The Java API for RESTful Web Services - JSR-311, JSR-370
• SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) - JSR-67

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• Basic support: WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
• Quality of Service: WS-Reliable Messaging
• Metadata: WS-Policy, WSDL 1.1 - Web Service Definition Language
• Communication Security: WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust (partial support)
• Messaging Support: WS-Addressing, SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

OpenAPI Specification (OAS) Support

• OAS 2.0 (classic Swagger specification)
• OAS 3.0.x (new revised specification)

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

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