Current Roadmap for future versions of CXF. (this is an ongoing "work in progress", subject to change.)

CXF versions 2.0.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.0.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk/2.1.x on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

In general, 2.0.x releases occur about every 12 weeks.

CXF version 2.1.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.1.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

However, some new features have been back ported from the 2.2 branch (trunk) to provide some new functionality to users quicker. These include:

• Continuations
• True asynchronous client requests
• Request/Response contexts for simple frontend clients and Dynamic clients
• New spring based JMS transport

In general, 2.1.x releases occur about every 8 weeks.

CXF version 2.2

New features are being developed here to be released "when ready". The current plan is in Q1/09, but subject to slippage if we the features aren't releasable. Features on the roadmap include:

• JAX-RS 1.0 support
• WS-SecurityPolicy support
• WS-Trust support
• WS-SecureConversation support

Future version - some will likely go into 2.2

• XmlBeans tooling (wsdl2java support)
• JiBX databinding (runtime, tooling is lower priority)
• Better Acegi integration
• Other WS-* stuff