Apache CXF Software Architecture Guide

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See Configuration of the Bus for an example of how to customize the bus by supplying your own bean configuration file and Configuration of Runtime Constructed Objects for more information on the special case of injecting into objects created by the runtime (as opposed to objects created by the IOC container itself).

How service calls are processed

Front-ends

Front-ends provide a programming model to interact with CXF. JAX-WS, JAX-RS, Simple and Javascript front-end APIs are provided by CXF . Each implementation is cleanly separated from the rest of CXF, just like the bindings and the core. Front-ends provide functionality through interceptors that are added to Services and Endpoints. See also Front-ends

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