The CXF transport is now included in Mule 2.x. The documentation here is only relevant to Mule 1.4.4 - 1.6.x. The latest documentation can be found here.

CXF Transport

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

The Mule CXF Transport is an evolution of Mule's XFire Transport which provides support for the use of web service integration via Apache CXF.

See the Cookbook and the FAQ for more information on how to use it.

Status

1.1 has been released and can be downloaded here. You will also find a bookstore example which can be downloaded.

Alternatively, see Setting up your build and classpath to learn how to use this connector with Maven.

Finished:

• JAX-WS and Simple Frontend support
• Code first and WSDL first services
• CXF Client outbound router
• BridgeComponent support
• WS-Addressing testing
• MTOM Testing

Migrating to CXF and Mule's CXF Transport

• Java 5.0: CXF and the CXF transport for mule both require Java 5.0.
• Suggested Reading:
  XFire->CXF Migration Guide
  XFire and Celtix Merge FAQ