JPMS (Java 9 and beyond)

Introduction

One of the major features introduced along with Java 9 release is JPMS: Java Platform Module System. As of now, Apache CXF modules are not built / released as Java modules however the work in this direction has been started.

Automatic-Module-Name

Starting from 3.2.5 release, all Apache CXF modules contain the Automatic-Module-Name manifest entry in order to provide stable and convenient way to reference them from the descriptors of the modular (JPMS-based) Java applications. The list of the modules and their Automatic-Module-Name is presented below.

The naming scheme has been adopted following the Stephen Colebourne recommendations (http://blog.joda.org/2017/04/java-se-9-jpms-module-naming.html) and based on package name.

Since we publish test artifacts as well, they have been enriched with Automactic-Module-Name manifest entry:

Example Usage

Here is a quick example of using Apache CXF SSE capabilities from modular Java application through the module-info.java descriptor.

module sample.sse {
    ...
    
    requires org.apache.cxf.frontend.jaxrs;
    requires org.apache.cxf.transport.http;
    requires org.apache.cxf.rs.sse;
    requires com.fasterxml.jackson.jaxrs.json;
    requires com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation;
    requires io.reactivex.rxjava2;
    
    requires transitive java.ws.rs;
    requires transitive org.reactivestreams;
    
    requires javax.servlet.api;
    requires jetty.server;
    requires jetty.servlet;
    requires jetty.util;
    
    requires java.xml.bind;
}