[OT] Wake Up To CXF Revolution !

It's the end of the summer, still warm outside, and your friends from the Big Data team have millions of millions of records processed per second with Hadoop and give the happy smiles of those who are doing something new and cool. And you have GET, POST, may be PUT, then again GET. Occasional DELETE and if you are really lucky, you've got PATCH in the logs. You are starting wondering, is it really still cool, be a web service  developer, does anyone care, what is new here ? Apache CXF has been around for so many years. What is next ?

Keeping a project such as Apache CXF alive and healthy for a long time is not an easy task. Dan, the lead, gave a nice presentation about Apache CXF in Denver, about the work we have done to keep CXF relevant and up-to-date. Dan did not mention it during the presentation: Apache CXF dependencies are always up to date, with the project being constantly aligned, optimized and having the workarounds in place should a given underlying module prove too rigid in supporting CXF in doing what it should do. CXF is a well-oiled, fast web services engine thanks to Dan.

This is all good you may say, but what is next ? What revolution am I talking about ? JAX-WS is not evolving, JAX-RS is not exactly new either. You can even say, CXF is old ? Well, the CXF fire is as alive as ever, the revolution is brewing, CXF is going to get to the next level where it will become one of the de-facto choices for writing new, secure, user-centric HTTP services.  The need for such services will only keep growing.

The industry is not sleeping, lots of new exciting technologies are being developed: OAuth2, JOSE, WebCrypto, OpenId-Connect. It's all incredibly cool. It's new. It's only a beginning of the long development life-cycle. Apache CXF wants to be there.

And finally to the [OT] moment: Arcade Fire is fantastic group. Wake Up. Wake Up to the Next CXF Revolution, be part of it, and give your friends that happy smile again ! Tell your grandchildren you were there when it started (LOL while I'm typing it).

Have Fun !