Welcome to Apache Incubator CXF!
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Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and 
develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These 
services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful 
HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following 
areas:

    * Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service 
      standards including SOAP, the Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, 
      WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security.
    * Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF
      implements the JAX-WS APIs. It also includes a "simple frontend" which 
      allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports 
      both contract first development with WSDL and code first development 
      starting from Java.
    * Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There 
      are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to 
      make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.0 XML support 
      to make configuration a snap, and much more.
    * Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a 
      pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type 
      bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport.


Incubation Disclaimer
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Apache Incubator CXF is an effort undergoing incubation at the Apache Software 
Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. 

Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review 
indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process 
have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. 

While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or 
stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully 
endorsed by the ASF.


Getting Started
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For an Apache CXF source distribution, please read BUILDING.txt for 
instructions on building Apache CXF. 

For an Apache CXF binary distribution, please read release_notes.txt
for installation instructions and list of supported and unsupported 
features.

Alternatively, you can also find out how to get started here:
http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/

If you need more help try talking to us on our mailing lists:
http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/mailing-lists.html
 
If you find any issues with CXF, please submit reports with JIRA here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF

We welcome contributions, and encourage you to get involved in the CXF
community. If you'd like to learn more about how you can contribute, please
see:
http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/getting-involved.html

Thank you for using CXF!

The Apache Incubator CXF Team
http://incubator.apache.org/cxf/
