Apache CXF is an open source software project developing a Web services framework. It originated as the combination of Celtix developed by

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and

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developed by a team hosted at Codehaus in 2006. These two projects were combined at the

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. The name "CXF" was derived by combining "''Celtix''" and "''XFire''".

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CXF is often used with

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and

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(SOA) infrastructure projects. Apache CXF supports the Java programming interfaces JAX-WS, JAX-RS, JBI, JCA, JMX, JMS over SOAP, Spring, and the XML data binding frameworks JAXB, Aegis, Apache XMLBeans, SDO. CXF includes the following: *Web Services Standards Support: **

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** WS-Addressing ** WS-Policy ** WS-ReliableMessaging ** WS-SecureConversation ** WS-Security **

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* JAX-WS API for Web service development **

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-first support **

WSDL The Web Services Description Language (WSDL ) is an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also ...

-first tooling *

JAX-RS Jakarta RESTful Web Services, (JAX-RS; formerly Java API for RESTful Web Services) is a Jakarta EE API specification that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural pattern. ...

(JSR 339 2.0) API for RESTful Web service development *

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programming model for service and client development * Maven tooling * CORBA support *

HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, ...

, JMS and WebSocket transport layers *Embeddable Deployment: **ServiceMix or other JBI containers **Geronimo or other Java EE containers **

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or other servlet containers ** OSGi *Reference OSGi Remote Services implementation

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External links

Apache CXF website
{{Jakarta RESTful Web Services CXF Web services Web service specifications Web applications Java enterprise platform Java (programming language) libraries

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