Apache CXF

License: Apache License
Website: apache.org

Apache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies (acquired by Progress Software in 2008) and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache Software Foundation. The name CXF derives from combining the "Celtix" and "XFire" project names.

The CXF key design considerations include:

Clean separation of front-ends, like JAX-WS, from the core code.
Simplicity with, for instance, the creation of clients and endpoints without annotations.
High performance with minimum computational overhead.
Embeddable Web service component: example embeddings include Spring Framework and Geronimo.

Features [edit]

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

Web Services Standards Support:
JAX-WS API for Web service development
- Java first support
- WSDL first tooling
JAX-RS (JSR 311 1.1) API for RESTful Web service development
JavaScript programming model for service and client development
Maven tooling
CORBA support
HTTP and JMS 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

Enterprise support for CXF is available from independent vendors, including FuseSource, JBoss, Talend, and Sosnoski Software Associates. See the CXF Support Page for details on all support options.