Apache CXF

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	3.5.2 / April 12, 2022; 48 days ago (2022-04-12)
Repository	CXF Repository
Written in	Java
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web Services
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	cxf.apache.org

Apache CXF is an open source software project developing a Web services framework. It originated as the combination of Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus in 2006. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache Software Foundation and the name "CXF" was derived by combining "Celtix" and "XFire".^[1]

Description

The CXF design considerations include:

• Clean separation of front-ends, like Java API for XML Web Services (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.

CXF is often used with Apache ServiceMix, Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ in service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure projects.

CXF includes the following:

• Web Services Standards Support:
  • SOAP
  • WS-Addressing
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-ReliableMessaging
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-Security
  • WS-SecurityPolicy
• JAX-WS API for Web service development
  • Java-first support
  • WSDL-first tooling
• JAX-RS (JSR 339 2.0) API for RESTful Web service development
• JavaScript programming model for service and client development
• Maven tooling
• CORBA support
• HTTP, 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