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CXF™: An Open-Source Services Framework

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Overview

Apache CXF™ is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

News

March 12, 2024 - Apache CXF 3.5.8, 3.6.3 and 4.0.4 released!

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The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of

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our latest patch releases!  Over 28 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.0.4.

These releases contain a fix for a new security issue: https://cxf.apache.org/

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security-advisories.data/CVE-2024-28752.txt

Downloads are available here.

Sept 18, 2023 - Apache CXF 3.5.7, 3.6.2 and 4.0.3 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of our latest patch releases!  Over 15 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.01 and 3.5.6.

Downloads are available here.

June 12, 2023 - Apache CXF 3.6.1 and 4.0.2 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of our latest patch releases!  Over 7 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.0.2 and 3.6.1.

Downloads are available here.

May 8, 2023 - Apache CXF 3.5.6, 3.6.0 and 4.0.1 released!

The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of our latest patch releases!  Over 15 JIRA issues were fixed for 4.01 and 3.5.6.

Downloads are available here.

Features

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2.2.12 fixes over 45 JIRA issues reported against 2.2.11. See: http://cxf.apache.org/apache-cxf-2212-release-notes.html^{Image Removed}

Oct 11, 2010 - Apache CXF 2.3.0 is released!

Apache CXF 2.3.0 is a pretty significant upgrade from the 2.2.x series of releases. There are plenty of new features and other improvements including:

• JAX-WS 2.2 Support
• JAX-RS 1.1 Support
• New annotations of java first use cases
  • @WSDLDocumentation annotation to add documentation nodes to generated wsdl
  • @SchemaValidation annotation to turn on schema validation
  • @DataBinding to set the databinding used (if other than JAXB)
  • @GZIP to turn on GZIP compression
  • @FastInfoset to turn on FastInfoset support
  • @Logging to turn on and control various Logging functionality
  • @EndpointProperty to configure endpoint properties
  • @Policy to associate WS-Policy documents with the service
• SOAP over JMS 1.0 specification implementation
• SDO databinding
• Schema Validation support for Aegis data binding if Woodstox 4 is used for the Stax parser

See the release notes for the latest migration and upgrade information.

Downloads are available here.

Overview

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CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

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CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs (TCK compliant). CXF JAX-WS support includes some extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases.

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For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS (TCK compliant) frontend.

• Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.x XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more.
• Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport.

To get started using CXF, check out the downloads, the user's guide, or the mailing lists to get more information!

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Goals

General

• High Performance
• Extensible
• Intuitive & Easy to Use

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• JAX-WS - Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 - JSR-224
• Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform - JSR-181
• JAX-RS - The Java API for RESTful Web Services - JSR-311, JSR-370
• SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) - JSR-67

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• Basic support: WS-I Basic Profile 1.1
• Quality of Service: WS-Reliable Messaging
• Metadata: WS-Policy, WSDL 1.1 - Web Service Definition Language
• Communication Security: WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation, WS-Trust (partial support)
• Messaging Support: WS-Addressing, SOAP 1.1, SOAP 1.2, Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM)

OpenAPI Specification (OAS) Support

• OAS 2.0 (classic Swagger specification)
• OAS 3.0.x (new revised specification)

Multiple Transports, Protocol Bindings, Data Bindings, and Formats

• Transports: HTTP, Servlet, JMS, In-VM and many others via the Camel transport for CXF such as SMTP/POP3, TCP and Jabber
• Protocol Bindings: SOAP, REST/HTTP, pure XML
• Data bindings: JAXB 2.x, Aegis, Apache XMLBeans, Service Data Objects (SDO), JiBX (under development)
• Formats: XML Textual, JSON, FastInfoset
• Extensibility API allows additional bindings for CXF, enabling additional message format support such as CORBA/IIOP

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