[OT] Apache CXF: Nothing Else Matters !

One can ask, do web services still matter in the today's world of emerging technologies such as Cloud and Big Data ?

Of course they do still matter. Take Big Data. The important thing to realize is as far as a remote client interacting with your HTTP server which internally initiates BigData flows is concerned it is still a client and HTTP server only - the client submits the data and gets the response it needs - the mechanism used to produce this response is, and has to be, completely opaque to the remote client, nothing unusual here, simply a proper service design leaking no implementation details to the client. In some cases one may not want to link BigData response streams to remote clients but in other cases it may make a perfect sense.

So yes, the web services do still matter because one still needs a production-quality, secure, flexible HTTP layer between the remote clients and internal data systems.

In fact, if you are an Apache CXF user, I can already hear you all saying (or even singing ?), Apache CXF: Nothing Else Matters ! Just make it loud enough to have your colleagues from the other team hear it :-)