Should probably have said "with CXF you build and deploy a separate web
app for each service /or group of services/." The difference with Axis2
is that the services (and groups of services) running within the single
Axis2 war can all be separately managed and monitored, including
redeployed on the fly if that features is enabled. With CXF, if you want
to separately deploy and control services they have to be in separate wars.
- Dennis
Oliver Wulff wrote:
with CXF you build and deploy a separate web app for each service.
We deploy several cxf services within one web app.
-Oliver
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From: Dennis Sosnoski [[email protected]]
Sent: 08 July 2010 19:17
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: CXF advantages and disadvantages over Axis2
Here's how I recently responded to a similar question on the Axis2 list...
If you're not using WS-Security the two stacks each have some advantages
and disadvantages. The main difference on the client side is that CXF is
best used with the JAX-WS frontend, which means you need to have access
to the WSDL at runtime (since that's how JAX-WS handles configuration).
Axis2's JAX-WS support is limited, but it does provide direct
configuration in ADB code generated from WSDL which is in many ways
simpler than the JAX-WS approach. On the server side, with Axis2 you
deploy a web app (WAR) which acts as a host for as many services as you
want to run, and also provides some basic monitoring and control
functions; with CXF you build and deploy a separate web app for each
service.
The two perform about the same unless you're using WS-Security. If
you're using WS-Security CXF gives *much* better performance than Axis2.
The way you configure WS-Security in CXF is also cleaner than in Axis2,
which requires a hacked-up version of the WSDL with embedded security
configuration parameters (CXF just has separate files with the security
configuration parameters).
My IBM developerWorks series on Java Web Services
(http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/java/libraryview.jsp?search_by=java+web+services:)
has details on the configuration issues and performance.
- Dennis
Dennis M. Sosnoski
XML and Web Services in Java
Training and Consulting
http://www.sosnoski.com - http://www.sosnoski.co.nz
Seattle, WA +1-425-939-0576 - Wellington, NZ +64-4-298-6117
srinivas thallapalli wrote:
Hi All,
Can anybody please explain, what are the CXF advantages and disadvantages
over Axis2.
Thanks
