CXF

When it comes to developing and building services using frontend programming APIs, CXF is a great tool to consider. This free software solution works with a variety of protocols including SOAP, RESTful HTTP, XML/HTTP, or CORBA and can operate over several transports including JMS, HTTP, or JBI.

CXF features many offerings, with a primary focus on Web Services Standards Support, Frontends, Ease of use, and Binary and Legacy Protocol Support. CXF is well versed in web service standards like SOAP, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security, and includes a variety of frontend programming models like JAX-WS APIs and code first development, which begin from Java. It also contains a "simple frontend" attribute, which can be used to create clients and endpoints without annotations.

CXF is designed to be intuitive and user friendly, making use of simple APIs for quick code first service building, Maven plug-ins for easy tool integration, JAX-WS API support, as well as Spring 2.0 XML support for easy configuration. CXF also offers binary and legacy protocol support with a pluggable architecture that works well with XML and non-XML type bindings such as JSON and CORBA, utilized with any type of transport. Overall, CXF is a powerful tool that can help you develop and build services with ease.