SOAP runtimes like CXF allows to interact with the inbound/outbound messages with interceptors. Interceptors are the fundamental processing unit inside CXF. When a service is invoked, an InterceptorChain is created and invoked. Each interceptor gets a chance to do what they want with the message. This can include reading it, transforming it, processing headers, validating […]
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In this tutorial we are going to see how to implement SOAP Web Services using Spring Framework. In this example we’ll use a Contract-First approach. This approach encourages you to think of the service contract first, in terms of XML, using XML schema (.xsd) and WSDL. In this approach, you design the request and response […]
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Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style created based on how the Web works. Applied to web services, it tries to put the Web back into web services. To design a RESTful web service, you need to know Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), and to observe a few design principles. You need to […]
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They are of course in many ways comparable; of necessity web services frameworks must fill in all the same blanks, but since both projects are very young, each has certain areas that are more well-developed than others. The chief differences are as follows: CXF has support for WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-RM, WS-Security, and WS-I BasicProfile. Axis2 […]
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