On Tue January 19 2010 5:16:43 pm easternwahoo wrote: > I am writing a justification for use of CXF at my company, and I need to > list any commercial companies that are using it. I've searched the Apache > CXF site and the FuseSource site. The only company I found was Sabre, but > they use the ESB product, but they don't mention CXF.
As Johan kind of mentioned, there are a lot of companies that don't want to publicly state what technologies they are using. That is one of the benefits of the FUSE versions of CXF and the FUSE versions of the other Apache projects we support. The companies can get support and log issues and interact with some of the developers without doing so on public lists and such. Since I DO interact with those customers, I'm definitely restricted in what I can say, but let's see what I can come up with. First, as you found, SABRE is DEFINITELY a major user. Also, we've publicly announced that FAA is using FUSE stuff and CXF is one major part of that. Those are the only two I'm really allowed to talk about by name. But some others: 1) A VERY VERY large US based Pharmacy chain uses SMX and CXF 2) A leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking. (one of the big telecoms) 3) bunch more... Other things to note: 1) The Java version of IONA/Progress Artix 5 is basically just CXF with a bunch of closed source plugins and interceptors. Thus, all the Artix customers are technically using CXF. According to: http://web.progress.com/en/sonic/artix-esb.html I see Credit Suisse, Reuters, Raymond James & Associates, Marconi, and Deutsche Post (DHL). Not all of them would be using the Java version though. Not sure which would be. 2) Most of the major ESB's (except those from IBM, Oracle/BEA/Sun, and WSO2) use CXF for their webservices stuff. Thus, customers of those ESB's that are doing anything webservice related are likely to be using CXF. Major examples would be Mule users and ServiceMix users. 3) Likewise, many of the J2EE app servers (except those from IBM and Oracle/BEA/Sun) use CXF for JAX-WS. Jonas, Geronimo (also has Axis2 option), Pramati, etc... And example of (2) would be LeapFrog's use of Mule: http://0921ccnz33vh1pvcmg02.images.s3.amazonaws.com/cdn/Best-of-Breed.pdf Think about Christmas morning when all the little kids opened their new LeapFrog internet enabled toys........ You could also look back through this list at the "From" addresses to get some kind of idea of some of the companies using CXF. Not exactly reliable information though. I see addresses from a couple bit telcoms, couple big banks and insurance companies, a ticketing reseller, etc..... -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] http://www.dankulp.com/blog
