I have used both CXF and JAX-WS RI. While both are good solutions, I prefer CXF for its ease of use, flexibility, and extendibility. While JAX-WS RI is also flexible and extendible, I find CXF to feel more natural in the way that it is done.
As for Spring integration, CXF treats Spring as a 1st class citizen-- it has been an important part of CXF from the very beginning. JAX-WS RI, on the other hand, added Spring support later in its development cycle in response to user requests. I think that this is actually fairly apparent in its usage. But in all honesty (IMHO, anyway), you can't go wrong with either one. I just happen to think you'll go better with CXF. But I may be biased as a former XFire user. ;) As for JAX-WS 2.0, I'm not sure I understand your question. JAX-WS 2.0 *is* already out, and *is* supported by CXF. -Chris -----Original Message----- From: mahendran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: CXF - General questions Hi, I work for a large banking firm. We are currently in the process of upgrading our application server stack and associated services. We are looking to integrate Spring and web services across different platforms. Our aim is to deploy components that are Spring based but expose them to non-java clients as web services. We tried using Spring's native web services component which worked fine with java clients. With non-java clients we found that JAX-WS worked better. So this brings us to CXF which supports JAX-WS and Spring. We were able to follow the examples in the Apache CXF site and get some POCs running. But we do have some questions. 1. Does CXF have plans to upgrade to the latest versions of JAX-WS? What happens when JAX-WS 2.0 comes out? 2. We are also looking into JAX-WS RI for the same purpose? Have anyone tried that? If so how does it compare against CXF? I'm fairly new to this subject, so I would appreciate any kind of suggestions. Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/CXF---General-questions-tf3884558.html#a11010279 Sent from the cxf-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
