May 14, 2006
XFire: Java Web Services Framework
While browsing through my numerous RSS feeds I stumbled on a release note for the XFire Java Web Service library. There are lots of Java Web Service frameworks available on the Internet and most are available for free use (eg Apache AXIS, Sun's JWSDP, IBM WebSphere, etc). The problem with many of them are that they do not support some of the newest Web Service standards. As I work in a research area where we are always pushing the envelopes and therefore using bleeding edge standards libraries that support the new standards are always useful. XFile supports a number of different bindings including XMLBeans, JAXB and AEGIS (XML to POJO binding) to easily create your back end service code. There is also early support to both WS-Addressing and WS-Security standards, which most Web Service frameworks do not support and to put the icing on the cake it supports multiple transports (including HTTP, JMS, Local and XMPP). More work is still required to make it a complete Web Services framework that supports all the new standards but it is well on its way.
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