Re: Maturity

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

Greg,

There was a thread about this on TheServerSide this weekend.  I did reply 
with the only information I'm allowed to provide.   :-(

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=47448

Dan


On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Greg Thoenen wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Christian.
>
> Is there anyone else out there willing to give a brief answer to these
> two of my original questions:
>
> Is CXF considered production ready?  If so, is anyone using it in
> production systems, and what are people's experiences regarding its
> production readiness?
>
> Thanks much,
> Greg
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christian Vest Hansen [mailto:karmazilla@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:18 PM
> > To: cxf-user@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Maturity
> >
> > We are using CXF to build an SSO and general intergration
> > platform at my workplace.
> >
> > We initially started out with XFire but decided in the last
> > minute (and about three days after CXF 2.0 was released IIRC)
> > to go with CXF instead, even though it meant scraping some of
> > work we already had done on some general components.
> >
> > We did this even though XFire is very mature and production
> > ready, because if you want to build software with a future,
> > it's best to use technologies that have a future as well; CXF
> > is young and has its kinks, but it also has momentum and a
> > growing community as far as I can tell, and this made it a
> > better option for us then XFire.
> >
> > I personally consider CXF production ready; we haven't got
> > any CXF services in production systems just yet, though we
> > have some handfuls in staging environments and they are
> > humming along quite handsomly.
> >
> > 2007/10/23, Greg Thoenen <gt...@infopia.com>:
> > > Hi, all.
> > >
> > > I'm currently evaluating web service frameworks that might
> >
> > provide our
> >
> > > web services on the server side.  CXF is a top contender, but I'm
> > > a little confused about its maturity.  It is still in the Apache
> > > incubator, however it has releases that appear to me to be
> >
> > "production"
> >
> > > releases (e.g. 2.0.1, as opposed to 2.0-MC1 or 2.0-RC1, etc.).
> > >
> > > This leads me to some (related) questions:  Is CXF considered
> > > production ready?  If so, is anyone using it in production
> > > systems, and what are people's experiences regarding its
> > > production
> >
> > readiness?
> >
> > > An unrelated question that may be pretty ignorant (sorry) is why
> > > Apache is sponsoring CXF rather than modifying the web service
> > > framework
> > > (Axis2) that it already is invested in?  Was it deemed that
> >
> > it would
> >
> > > take more effort to modify Axis2 to support JAX-WS, etc.,
> >
> > as to start
> >
> > > with XFire and do it?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > Greg
> >
> > --
> > Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
> > Christian Vest Hansen.



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