Codehaus XFire - a next-generation java SOAP framework

Codehaus XFire is a next-generation java SOAP framework. Codehaus XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model.

Features & Goals

• Support for important Web Service standards - SOAP, WSDL, WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Addressing, WS-Security, etc.
• High performance SOAP Stack
• Pluggable bindings POJOs, XMLBeans, JAXB 1.1, JAXB 2.0, and Castor support
• JSR 181 API to configure services via Java 5 and 1.4 (Commons attributes JSR 181 syntax)
• Support for many different transports - HTTP, JMS, XMPP, In-JVM, etc.
• Embeddable and Intuitive API
• Spring, Pico, Plexus, and Loom support.
• JBI Support
• Client and server stub generation
• JAX-WS early access support

• Apache Web Services Project
• Apache CXF: An Open Source Service Framework
• JBossWS
• Hessian Binary Web Service Protocol
• Apache WSIF: Web Services Invocation Framework
• Apache Axis
• kSOAP
• Gomba - Java RESTful web services
• Restlet - Lightweight REST framework for Java
• jSoapServer
• XINS
• SOAP UDDI
• UDDI4J - a Java API to interact with a UDDI
• soapUI
• CRISPY - Communication Per Remote Invocation for Different Kinds of Services via Proxys
• Ivory