On Monday 28 April 2008, Daniel Kulp wrote: > The Apache Incubator CXF team is proud to announce the availability of > the 2.1 release!
Ick... OK. Not the "Apache Incubator CXF" team anymore. Teach me to copy/paste stuff. It's now: The Apache CXF team is proud to announce the availability of the 2.1 release! Dan > > 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.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > Downloads are available from: > http://cxf.apache.org/download.html > > > Thanks! > The Apache CXF Team > http://cxf.apache.org/ -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer, IONA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
