The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of
the 2.1
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 WSI 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 2.1 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.
What's new in CXF 2.1:
* JAX-WS 2.1 support - the JAX-WS implementation has been
updated to the
JAX-WS 2.1 specification level. Code generatation is JAX-WS
2.1/JAXB
2.1 compliant.
* Initial implementation of JAX-RS 0.6 REST based service
framework.
* Javascript client generation and support - SOAP based
endpoints can
have javascript clients created automatically with ?js URL.
There is
also command line tooling.
* CORBA binding merged from Yoko - JAX-WS Clients/Servers
can talk IIOP
to allow communication with other CORBA processess. Tooling
for IDL ->
WSDL, WSDL -> IDL, etc... are there to support this.
* New java2ws tooling to support better "java
first" development
patterns.
* xmlbeans runtime support to allow using XmlBeans for the
data model.
* MANY MANY bugfixes, performance enhancements, etc... Too
numerous to
list individually.
Finally, the major new "non-code" feature:
* This is our first release after graduating from the
incubator as a Top
Level Project. Thus, this is a full
"non-incubator" release. 
As always, we welcome feedback on our mailing lists:
http://cxf.a
pache.org/mailing-lists.html
Downloads are available from:
http://cxf.apache
.org/download.html
Thanks!
The Apache CXF Team
http://cxf.apache.org/
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