Apache CXF Reviews & Product Details

Good performance, easy to use. Never had an issue with the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though it's easy to use, it's not simple to find errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ability to dynamically generate client proxies on-demand at runtime, by providing the appropriate API (controller) interface class

Annotated interface concept allows you to define a common API module (set of lightweight, annotated (e.g. fully JAX-RS) interfaces) and base your server and client on it, leading to a very clean design

Ability to plug in desired serialization providers (e.g. Jackson JSON Provider)

Interceptors, e.g. for automatically converting HTTP error responses into Java exceptions

For JAX-RS APIs, ability to leverage all the familiar JAX-RS server and client semantics (e.g. WebClient, builder-style request and response operations) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some edge configurations may not be fully supported; e.g. we faced one case where we needed to fetch accept form-data params on our REST service backend, one of them as an InputStream; but CXF didn't have a way to facilitate this (at least in 3.1.11 which we use in production), so eventually we had to modify our API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was really easy to publish XML and XSLT. It was also fairly easy to build various web applications. Also easy to build XML based files. Apache has other programs that are great to use so definitely can switch over and fulfill all your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although I found it easy to use, others did not. I found myself doing a lot of teaching and training which costs a lot of time. We all know time translates in to money. Also some were worried about security since everything is connected to the internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's quite easy to implement rpc communication between services with CXF. Apache CXF also provides you plugins for circuit breaker (like hystrix), service discovery, retry polices etc. So you can built that type of client/server which you want. CXF also have support of spring bean container for the server side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Official plugins support particular set of technologies. Some cutting edge framework have community plugins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use always this product to develop service interface, both rest achiteture style than SOAP. about SOAP i use it to implement ws-addressing to define id-message and message toreply and overall to develop ws -security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its' very simple, normally it' enought use properties to define rules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have tried this version of Apache and Cacoon and I have to say CXF has been my favortie so far. It has been much easier to implament and I have no complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue I have ran into is with an update causing issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the JAX-WS and JAX-RS it's not so good implement like the others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The support for SOAP is very extensive including the parsing libraries and security policies it provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is very less support for REST API. Also the support for documentation annotation is not there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is simple and can be easily used to create SOAP web services. Better performance is also there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Configuration takes time and it's is complex. Learning curve for a beginner is high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think the best for CXF its configuration. I mean you have to use xml files. But its really clean for front-end. Performance its really good too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Find errors. I worked with spring and CXF. Works like a charm. But if you have an error, is hard find it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.