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Well, its been about one year since we began and today we’ve finally reached our 2.0 release! From the announcement:

The Apache Incubator CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.0 release!

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. 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.

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

• Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.
• Frontends: CXF supports a variety of “frontend” programming models. CXF provides a JAX-WS Compliant frontend. It also includes a “simple frontend” which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java.
• 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 2.0 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.

For those who aren’t up on things, CXF is the merge of the XFire and Celtix projects. As such, CXF is really a continuation of the XFire project and can be thought of as XFire 2.0. For all the XFire users out there: have no fear, your services should deploy just fine in CXF. You’ll just need to change your deployment code/xml. Check out our migration guide if you’re interested in more details.

For more information on CXF check out:

• User’s Guide
• Downloads
• Mailing Lists

Many thanks to all those involved in the whole process. Its been a pleasure to work with so many talented people. Thanks to Debbie Moynihan for helping the whole CXF project get rolling and getting IONA involved. Dan Kulp for continually making CXF more coherent, his incredible eye for detail, TCK work, build maintenance and patience with my build breakage. Andrea Smyth for the great Policy/ReliableMessaging work. Jervis Liu for his work on everything, like the SAAJ stuff which was a giant PITA. Eoghan Glynn for putting up with me and the superb WS-A layer. James Mao for making CXF tooling rock. Christopher Moesel for his MTOM integration. Willem Jiang for fixing things all over and the JCA work. Guillaume Nodet for using XFire, showing me how many things were wrong with it when using it with JBI and then helping develop the CXF JBI code. Freeman Fang for the JBI work. Jeff Genender and Jarek Gawor for their awesome work on the TCK and Geronimo. Jim Ma for the work on the tooling and frontends. Thanks to all the incubator folks for reviewing our releases. Our mentors who guided us in the Apache process, especially Jim Jagielski. (*whew* - I probably missed some people, apologies!)

A special thanks to Tomek Sztelak who has been helping maintain the XFire code more than I have lately and answering a ton of questions on the XFire list. Not only that, but he’s also found time to contribute a set of Maven archetypes to CXF. All this while he’s been working full time AND been in and out of the hospital! Heroic!

The CXF community welcomes involvement and feedback. For more information see how to get involved or the mailing lists.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007 at 4:58 am and is filed under Javercising, Web Services.