In the past few years many techniques have been developed to help applications interact with each other. One of them are webservice-interfaces. These interfaces are extremly popular in the world of Java software development. One Framework that can be used to build such interfaces is Apache CXF. Apache CXF delivers a toolset to develop interfaces using different protocols like XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, Corba and SOAP. In this article i'd like to show how easy it could be to develop a simple SOAP-webservice based on Apache CXF 2.2.6 and the Spring Framework 3.0.1. You can download the full example at the bottom of this article.
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