CXF 3.0 Trunk is JAX-RS 2.0 Ready

It took us some time to get the core JAX-RS 2.0 API completely implemented.

As I mentioned in my previous post the API is rich and powerful, so indeed it required quite a bit of effort to get it all supported but I'm happy to confirm that after resolving a CXF JIRA issue two days ago to do with supporting 2.0 Fluent Client API it is done now, CXF 3.0 Trunk is JAX-RS Ready.

As far as supporting new Client API is concerned, for the most part it has been implemented by delegating to CXF WebClient API, so those of you who work with CXF WebClient can continue using it, it won't be dropped. Besides, IMHO WebClient API offers a somewhat different approach toward writing a code to do with consuming HTTP services so it is good to say that in CXF we will offer several API flavors for users to experiment with.

Note that CXF 2.7.x supports JAX-RS 2.0 m10 - there are some minor differences between m10 and final 2.0 API supported on the trunk, but I'm hoping that users migrating to CXF 3.0 will see very few migration issues.

Now, as far as 2.0 API is concerned, I'd like to encourage users to actively experiment with the new features, with CXF 2.7.x and CXF 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT and report the issues if any; I'd like to thank those users who have already done so.

In meantime I will work on the proper documentation and stressing a bit the Client 2.0 API module against the early 2.0 TCK. Once this is all done we will turn our attention to getting Bean Validation feature supported across all CXF frontends.

Stay tuned !