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Glen Mazza commented on CXF-4719:
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Hi Jason. No, the requirement was not *just* to eliminate the XML, because
Freeman already provided a solution to Torben that would do that (namely,
CXFNonSpringServlet), but Torben in his response (which I requoted) clearly
indicated that such a non-Spring solution would be an unwanted "complex
alternative". Also, his comment in the Wiki:
http://cxf.547215.n5.nabble.com/CONF-Apache-CXF-Documentation-gt-Writing-a-service-with-Spring-td5720880.html
further indicates he wants Spring annotations.
I haven't researched Spring 3.1 annotations, but from what I understand from
Torben, it apparently provides a generic way to convert *any* Spring XML beans
file to annotations, including our own cxf-servlet.xml file. *That* is what
will make him happy. If Spring can indeed do this in a generic fashion we may
have nothing to do on our side to support it other than upgrade to Spring 3.1
or more recent, which if I understand from Dan is planned in CXF 2.8.
What you're proposing may still be of value with CXFNonSpringServlet (although
it doesn't use XML files anyway--primarily Java API and annotations IIUC:
http://cxf.apache.org/docs/servlet-transport.html), or if I'm overestimating
Spring 3.1 annotation capabilities. I'm just leery of putting something in if
its going to be redundant anyway once we upgrade to Spring 3.1. Once you put
functionality in, it is frequently difficult to remove later due to backwards
compatibility concerns. That was my main concern.
> Annotation for web service endpoint
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> Key: CXF-4719
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-4719
> Project: CXF
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Torben Vesterager
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> CXF is the only thing I'm using that still needs a spring configuration XML.
> All other components are configurable via annotations.
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