As a whole, the Web is moving more toward REST based APIs. Who is going to be consuming the Web Service a human or a machine? REST can be consumed by humans easily but WSDL is still the best for machines to consume. REST may be the best choice for the Web but there are many other uses for Web Services besides the Web.
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For one project I was working on, I needed to get access to the SOAP headers of web service call. I am using the Apache CXF services stack. There were quite a few threads on how to get access to SOAP headers from an interceptor. In my case, I needed the contents of the header [...]
I receive a lot of traffic to my post about HTTP Basic Authentication in Apache CXF. I decided to do a followup to that post to address some of the comments. I have never tried to use this with Mule but if someone has, please let me know so I can update this post. I [...]
Apache CXF is a great library for providing web services from Java. Their integration with the spring framework is the best of any web services library I have seen. But when it comes to documentation, they are a bit lacking in a few areas. Some tasks that you would think would be part of the [...]
