| Apache CXF 2.4.6 Release Notes |
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| 1. Overview |
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| The 2.4.x versions of Apache CXF are significant new versions of CXF |
| that provides several new features and enhancements. |
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| New features include: |
| * Log Browser Console - see the logbrowser sample for an example |
| * Transformation feature provides for a fast and effective way to transform inbound |
| and/or outbound XML messages, please see the TransformationFeature page for more |
| information. |
| * JIBX databinding |
| * Faster startup and reduced spring configuration. The Spring support has been redone |
| to be based on the ExtensionManagerBus. This results in much faster startup. It also |
| means that all of the imports of META-INF/cxf/cxf-extension-*.xml are no longer |
| needed and are deprecated. Additionaly, all features are now available when |
| using the ExtensionManager Bus instead of being forced to use Spring. |
| * WSS4J has been updated from 1.5.x to 1.6. See http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/wss4j16.html |
| for the list of new features and upgrade notes for Apache WSS4J 1.6. Some notable new |
| features for CXF users include: |
| * SAML2 support: WSS4J 1.6 includes full support for creating, manipulating and |
| parsing SAML2 assertions, via the Opensaml2 library. See |
| http://coheigea.blogspot.com/2011/02/support-for-saml2-assertions-in-wss4j.html |
| for more information. |
| * Performance work: A general code-rewrite has been done with a focus on improving |
| performance. |
| * Support for Crypto trust-stores: WSS4J 1.6 separates the concept of keystore and |
| truststores. See http://coheigea.blogspot.com/2011/01/wss4j-16-crypto-property-change.html |
| for more information. |
| * WS-SecurityPolicy support for SAML tokens. |
| * Initial OSGi Blueprint support for JAX-WS and JAX-RS |
| * A simple framework for building an STS was added to CXF's WS-Security module. See the |
| sts_issue_operation sample to see this being used to generate SAML tokens based on X509 |
| certs used for the authentication. |
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| Users are encourage to review the migration guide at: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/docs/24-migration-guide.html |
| for further information and requirements for upgrading to 2.4.0. In particular, the upgrades |
| to WSS4J and Neethi will require some migration work if you use the WSS4J API's directly or |
| have created your own Policy objects or builders. Additionally, XmlSchema was update to 2.0 |
| so any custom Aegis types may need to be updated. |
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| 2.4.6 fixes over 25 JIRA issues reported by users and the community. |
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| 2. Installation Prerequisites |
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| Before installing Apache CXF, make sure the following products, |
| with the specified versions, are installed on your system: |
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| * Java 5 Development Kit |
| * Apache Maven 2.2.1 or 3.x |
| * Some samples can be built with Apache Ant 1.6 or later |
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| 3. Integrating CXF Into You Application |
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| If you use Maven to build your application, you need merely add |
| appropriate dependencies. See the pom.xml files in the samples. |
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| If you don't use Maven, you'll need to add one or more jars to your |
| classpath. The file lib/WHICH_JARS should help you decide which |
| jars you need. |
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| 4. Building the Samples |
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| Building the samples included in the binary distribution is easy. Change to |
| the samples directory and follow the build instructions in the README.txt file |
| included with each sample. |
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| 5. Reporting Problems |
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| If you have any problems or want to send feedback of any kind, please e-mail the |
| CXF dev list, dev@cxf.apache.org. You can also file issues in JIRA at: |
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| http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF |
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| 6. Migration notes: |
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| See the migration guide at: |
| http://cxf.apache.org/docs/24-migration-guide.html |
| for caveats when upgrading from CXF 2.3.x to 2.4.x. |
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| 7. Specific issues, features, and improvements fixed in this version |
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| ** Bug |
| * [CXF-3976] - SoapTransportFactory.getConduit(EndpointInfo ei, EndpointReferenceType target) ignores second parameter |
| * [CXF-3981] - WS-Addressing related faults do not contain addressing headers |
| * [CXF-3984] - Impossible to handle Locale parameters with country qualifiers |
| * [CXF-3986] - Update MessageContext.getContextualProperty to check Exchange if the property is of type Class |
| * [CXF-3989] - messageConetxt.setScope(MessageContext.HTTP_REQUEST_HEADERS, Scope.APPLICATION) leads to java.lang.IllegalArgumentException |
| * [CXF-3991] - Address information should be added to error message if conduit is not found |
| * [CXF-3993] - WS-RM's blueprint configuration fails to parse RMAssertion entries |
| * [CXF-4007] - Jetty threading parameters doesn't setup threadpool properly |
| * [CXF-4012] - The AlgorithmSuite class does not use the WS-SP standard maximum symmetric key size |
| * [CXF-4015] - wadl2java: xs:integer param is generated as invalid type |
| * [CXF-4016] - JAX-WS schema generation of an Exception annoted with @WebFault that contains a property of a class annotated with @XmlRootElement causes the schema of the WSDL to generate the incorrectly |
| * [CXF-4017] - SchemaCollection.addCrossImports handles only XmlSchemaSequence instead of all XmlSchemaGroupParticle |
| * [CXF-4018] - JAX-WS Providers created from class (instead of an actual instance bean) do not get the JAXWSMethodInvoker |
| * [CXF-4027] - Aegis BeanType does not ignore super type of java.lang.Enum |
| * [CXF-4031] - NullPoint Exception Raised when input is nothing and using Holder to return response |
| * [CXF-4036] - JAXBContextInitializer ignores some javax.xml.bind Annotations |
| * [CXF-4037] - Problem creating dynamic client when WSDL is hosted with secured transport (https) |
| * [CXF-4042] - When generating schema/wsdl, schemaLocations provided via @XmlSchema are dropped |
| * [CXF-4043] - JSONProvider can not get a custom prefix set for a collection wrapper element |
| * [CXF-4044] - ensure publishedEndpointUrl property could be set to endpoint |
| * [CXF-4045] - BusFactory does not catch NoClassDefFoundError |
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| ** Improvement |
| * [CXF-3979] - specify cxf-bundle start-level less than 60 |
| * [CXF-3988] - org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.ext.multipart.Attachment object should be mutable |
| * [CXF-3990] - Change scope for EffectivePolicyImpl.initilise() and EndpointPolicyImpl.initilise() to more permissive |
| * [CXF-3996] - Extend POLICY_OVERRIDE property to service IN |
| * [CXF-4000] - Update JSONProvider to get the response optionally formatted |
| * [CXF-4033] - Interceptor and Features annotations require context classloader |
| * [CXF-4039] - If the wsdlLocation is not a valid URL, you class.getResource(...) |
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| ** Task |
| * [CXF-3999] - Update Jettison version to 1.3.1 |
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