It’s been a LONG time coming (way too long, actually), but Apache CXF 2.3.0 is finally released. This version is a pretty significant upgrade from the 2.2.x series of releases.
New features include:
- JAX-WS 2.2 Compliant (passes TCK)
- JAX-RS 1.1 Compliant (passes TCK)
- New annotations for Java first use cases to reduce the need for external configuration and provide more control over the runtime and generated WSDL
- @WSDLDocumentation annotation to add documentation nodes to generated wsdl
- @SchemaValidation annotation to turn on schema validation
- @DataBinding to set the databinding used (if other than JAXB)
- @GZIP to turn on GZIP compression
- @FastInfoset to turn on FastInfoset support
- @Logging to turn on and control various Logging functionality
- @EndpointProperty to configure endpoint properties
- @Policy to associate WS-Policy documents with the service
- SOAP/JMS spec implementation. While CXF has supported SOAP over JMS since 2.0, there wasn’t a standard specification to describe how it should be done so different vendors did things differently and interoperability was impossible. The new SOAP/JMS specification support implements the new SOAP/JMS spec to achieve a higher degree of interoperability. The older SOAP/JMS configuration is still supported. WS-Addressing also now fully works with the JMS transport when used in conjunction with the SOAP/JMS spec implementation.
- SDO databinding
- Schema Validation support for Aegis Databinding if Woodstox 4 is used for the Stax parser
- Many other small tweaks and enhancements, too many to enumerate.
In addition to the above, CXF 2.3.0 was enhanced to reduce it’s memory footprint and reduce it’s startup time by delaying creation of many objects until/unless they are really needed.
See the 2.3 Migration guide for more details about the release.
Along with 2.3.0, the latest patch for the 2.2.x series (2.2.11) was also released. This patch fixes over 60 JIRA issues compared to 2.2.10. The CXF community prides itself on it’s ability to get fixes out to users in a timely manner. However, if you need better support than that, I have to recommend contacting Sopera as they can support all aspects of CXF usage better than any other company.(my opinion)