Apache CXF is an
open source software
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project developing a
Web services
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* a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...
framework. It originated as the combination of Celtix developed by
IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at the now defunct host CodeHaus in 2006. These two projects were combined at the
Apache Software Foundation
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. The name "CXF" was derived by combining "''Celtix''" and "''XFire''".
Description
CXF is often used with Apache ServiceMix,
Apache Camel and
Apache ActiveMQ in
service-oriented architecture (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:
**
SOAP
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**
WS-Addressing
**
WS-Policy
**
WS-ReliableMessaging
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The original specification was w ...
**
WS-SecureConversation
**
WS-Security
**
WS-SecurityPolicy
*
JAX-WS API for Web service development
**
Java
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-first support
**
WSDL-first tooling
*
JAX-RS (JSR 339 2.0) API for
RESTful Web service development
*
JavaScript
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Web browsers have ...
programming model for service and client development
*
Maven tooling
*
CORBA support
*
HTTP
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,
JMS and
WebSocket transport layers
*Embeddable Deployment:
**ServiceMix or other
JBI containers
**Geronimo or other
Java EE containers
**
Tomcat or other servlet containers
**
OSGi
*Reference OSGi Remote Services implementation
IONA Technologies distributes a commercial Enterprise version of Apache CXF under the name FUSE Services Framework.
Open Source FUSE Services Framework - based on CXF
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See also
*The Axis Web Services framework
* Apache Wink, a project in incubation with JAX-RS support
* List of web service frameworks
Citations
References
*
External links
Apache CXF website
{{Jakarta RESTful Web Services
CXF
Web services
Web service specifications
Web applications
Java enterprise platform
Java (programming language) libraries