Blogging at the speed of thought

Flux’s RestAction is the go-to construct for users orchestrating Flux workflows that involve web service integration. Be it HTTP-based services or SOAP-based services that implement HTTP binding, RestAction comes very handy for developers. Flux has a WebServiceAction which talks SOAP exclusively for services that implement WS-* such as Addressing, Security etc. RestAction has neat XPath [...]

There are two features that are very cool in the recent CXF 2.3 release that deserves its mention in the release notes/features document as they prove to be quite useful and powerful in certain use cases. Advanced search capabilities and Atom Logging features make CXF a compelling choice for developers looking for this support in [...]

JAXB is the defacto OXM binding framework for the Java platform which performs marshalling (serializing Java to XML) and unmarshalling (deserializing XML to Java) using the standard Java APIs. I must admit that JAXB is a smart addition to the Java Web services technologies stack. It reminds me of days where I used to write [...]

JAX-RS runtime allows applications to supply entity providers which maps services between representations (via @Produces and @Consumes) and their Java types. The entity provider interfaces MessageBodyReader and MessageBodyWriter defines the contract that supports the conversion of a stream to a Java type and vice versa. Lets write a simple JAXRS provider for handling a SOAPMessage [...]

SSL enabled RESTful services are quite easier to develop and test using Jersey, Grizzly and RestTemplate. Jersey (resource development) Grizzly Web Server (resource configuration and deployment) Spring 3 RestTemplate backed by Commons HTTP Client (resource access) In a moment, you will notice how all these nicely fit the bill. Let us start with the POM [...]

The central API for accessing RESTful services in Spring 3 is RestTemplate. It is like any other template mechanism provided by Spring for the client side access. The default implementation uses the java.net package for creating HTTP requests. RestTemplate can be backed by Commons HttpClient using ClientHttpRequestFactory. Using Commons HttpClient as the backend implementation supports [...]

Jersey 1.0.3 was released this week. This release has quite a few interesting new features and improvements to some of its existing functionality. Paul’s blog entry gives the specifics of this release. One of the cool features in this release is the ability to inject WadlApplicationContext in resources. This provides access to the WADL JAXB [...]

I was playing with CXF 2.2 over the weekend. I would like to share my experience in building a simple blogger service using CXF which provides seamless access to SOAP and REST web services. You would soon realize how services design and development has become easier with this new CXF release. Lets dive into the [...]

I have been waiting for this release for quite some time mainly because it fully supports JSR 311 API and its very own Client API. It could become one stop solution for developers building and deploying SOAP & REST web services. Major features of this release include : ~ JAX-RS 1.0 support ~ WS-SecurityPolicy support [...]

Sergey recently implemented multipart support for CXF JAXRS implementation which is available in 2.2-SNAPSHOT. He talks more about the feature in his blog here. It certainly provides a simpler programming model like any other CXF frontends, which I always liked with the CXF project and prime reason for its growing popularity among developers. It supports [...]