Completed Functionality and CXF analogues
XFire Feature |
CXF Analogue |
---|---|
Aegis Binding |
In the process of being ported... |
Configurable Servlet |
CXFServlet will do simple mappings, but doesn't contain Spring support. Still exploring options here. |
Eclipse Plugin |
Not ported yet |
HTTP Transport |
Completed |
JMS Transport |
Completed |
JAX-WS/JSR-181 Annotation Support |
Completed |
JAXB |
Completed |
MTOM |
Completed, although needs more interop testing |
services.xml |
Spring 2 XML will be supported for easy configuration |
Spring: XFireClientFactoryBean |
Not ported yet |
Spring: XFireExporter |
Not ported yet |
Spring: ServiceBean |
Not ported yet, although JaxWsServiceFactoryBean + ServerBean could probably be used |
WS-Addressing |
We're now using the WS-Addressing support from Celtix which is much more advanced. |
Should I Migrate Yet?
For most XFire users, the answer is NO right now. With M1 we've focused on the core functionality and architecture. M2 will contain most of the features XFire users have come to rely on such as Aegis or our helper Spring beans.