Introduction

ServiceMix provides support for the XFire SOAP stack, allowing clean integration between XFire and ServiceMix. XFire is an easy-to-use SOAP framework that offers high performance.

Before reviewing the partial example below, it is strongly recommended that you read the Spring XFire instructions.

Steps to Integrate with XFire

The first step is to create a service bean, for example:

package org.servicemix.components.xfire;

public class Echo {
    public String echo(String msg) {
        return msg;
    }
}

Next, define this service bean in your bean definitions:

<!-- The Service Bean -->
  <bean id="echo" class="org.servicemix.components.xfire.Echo" singleton="true"/>

  <bean name="Echo" class="org.codehaus.xfire.spring.ServiceBean">
    <property name="service" ref="echo"/>
    <property name="serviceFactory" ref="xfire.serviceFactory"/>
    <property name="xfire" ref="xfire"/>
  </bean>

Then, to expose your service on the JBI bus, register a JBI binding for the service:

{snippet:id=xfire|lang=xml|url=servicemix/smx3/trunk/common/servicemix-components/src/test/resources/org/apache/servicemix/components/xfire/xfire-inout.xml}

Location of the ServiceMix XFire Components

• The source code for the ServiceMix 3.x XFire components can be found at:
  [servicemix_src_install_dir]\servicemix-components\src\main\java\org\apache\servicemix\components\xfire
  where [servicemix_src_install_dir] is the directory in which ServiceMix is installed.
• The source code for the ServiceMix 2.0.x XFire components can be found at:
  [servicemix_src_install_dir]\components\base\src\main\java\org\servicemix\components\xfire
  where [servicemix_src_install_dir] is the directory in which ServiceMix is installed.

Additional Resources

For details on XFire, please refer to XFire SOAP stack.