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Under development

Simple Front-end

Under developmentCXF includes a simple frontend which builds services from reflection. This is in contrast to the JAX-WS frontend which requires you to annotate your web service classes or create a WSDL first. The simple frontend will use reflection to intelligently map your classes to a WSDL model.

Messaging & Interceptors

CXF is built on a generic messaging layer comprised of Messages, Interceptors, and InterceptorChains. Interceptors are the fundamental unit of functionality. By dividing up how messages are processed and sent, this gives CXF a very flexible architecture. It can be reconfigured at any point in the processing. This also gives CXF the ability to pause & resume interceptor chains.

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CXF includes its own transport abstraction layer to hide transport specific details from the binding and front end layers. Currently supported transports include: HTTP, Servlet, JMS, In-VM and many others via the Camel transport for CXF such as SMTP/POP3, TCP and Jabber. Learn more about transports here.

Conduits

Conduits provide the basis for outgoing message sending. A Conduit is created from a ConduitInitiator. Sending a message is a multistep pocess:

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