Apache CXF一个开源的Service框架，它实现了JCP与Web Service中一些重要标准。CXF简化了构造，集成，面 向服务架构(SOA)业务组件与技术的灵活复用。在CXF中，Service使用WSDL标准定义并能够使用各种不同的消息 格式(或binding)和网络协议(transports)包括SOAP、XML（通过HTTP或JMS）进行访问。CXF同样支持多种model 如：JAX-WS，JBI，SCA和CORBA service。CXF设计成可灵活部署到各种容器中包括Spring-based，JBI，SCA， Servlet和J2EE容器。

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas:

• Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the WS-I Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConverstation, and WS-Trust (partial).
• Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models.

CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs. CXF JAX-WS support includes some extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases.

It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java.

For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS frontend.

• Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.x XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more.
• Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport.

项目主页：http://www.open-open.com/lib/view/home/1362216472826