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JAX\-WS

Its helpful to know what supporting libraries you need to use XFire, so we've tried to create a concise table here. All these jars can be found on the Maven Ibiblio site except for the StAX jars, which can be found on the Codehaus distribution site. If you are using maven, you can have maven automatically search this site by adding the following to your project.properties:

maven.repo.remote=http://ibiblio.org/maven,http://dist.codehaus.org

 

 

 

 

Also, note that currently XFire requires Java 1.4+ as StAX depends on Java 1.4. Future releases may include Java 1.3 support.

Dependency Version Basic Usage Basic + XML Config Notes LICENSE 
xfire-all 1.0-RC1 X X    MIT
activation framework 1.0.2 X X    
commons-codec 1.3 O O Needed for HTTP client only  ASL 2.0
commons-httpclient 3.0 O O Needed for HTTP client only  ASL 2.0
commons-logging 1.0.4 X X    ASL 2.0
javamail 1.3.3 X X (Used for soap attachments)  
jaxen 1.1-beta-8 X X If you use AbstractXFireTest only  ASL 1.1
jdom 1.0 X X    ASL 1.1
jetty 5.x
O
O
Needed for XFireHttpServer
 ASL 2.0
junit 3.8.1 O O If you use AbstractXFireTest only  CPL 1.0
servletapi 2.3 X X For servlet use only.  
spring 1.2.4+   X    ASL 2.0
stax-api 1.0 X X    ASL 2.0
wsdl4j 1.5.2 X X    
xbean-spring 2.2   X From the XBean project.  ASL 2.0
woodstox 2.9 X X    ASL 2.0
XmlSchema 2005-11-10 HEAD+ O O Only needed for dynamic client. This is from the Apache WS Commons.  ASL 2.0

Selecting a Stax Implementation (IMPORTANT!)

Stax is the XML api that powers XFire and allows it to process XML efficiently. There are many different Stax implementations out there - the reference implementation (RI), Woodstox, FastInfoset, and there is one included in the JWSDP. Regardless of which you one choose you must have the stax-api jar on your classpath.

In addition we highly recommend that you use Woodstox as your Stax implementation. It is about 30-40% faster then the RI and works more reliably. To ensure you are using Woodstox and not the RI make sure the stax-1.1.x-dev jar is off your classpath and the wstx-2.0.3 jar is on it.

Optional Modules

Generator

Project Version Required/Optional  License
jaxb-xjc 2.0-EA3 Required.  CDDL
XmlSchema 2005-11-10 HEAD+ Required. This is from the Apache WS Commons.  ASL 2.0

Additional you will need the dependencies for JAXB or XMLBeans.

JAXB

Project Version Required/Optional License 
jaxb-xjc 2.0-EA3 Required at build.  CDDL
jaxb-impl 2.0-EA3 Required.  CDDL
jaxb-api 2.0-EA3 Required.  CDDL

These jars are a patched version of CVS HEAD from the JAXB-RI.. They contain two patches detailed here and here. They are both very small and only affect build time generation.

XMLBeans

Project Version Required/Optional  License
xmlbeans 2.0.0+ Required.  CDDL

Spring

All the Java Binding dependencies, plus:

Project Version Required/Optional License 
springframework 1.2.x Required.  ASL 2.0
aopalliance 1.0 Required.  ASL 2.0
commons-beanutils 1.7.0 Required.  ASL 2.0

Plexus

All the Java Binding dependencies, plus:

Project Version Required/Optional License
classworlds 1.1-alpha-1 Required.  ASL 1.1
plexus-container-default 1.0-alpha-2 Required.  MIT
plexus-utils 1.0-alpha-2 Required.  MIT
plexus-servlet 1.0-beta-2-SNAPSHOT Required.  MIT
xfire-plexus 1.0-M4 Required  MIT

Pico

All the Java Binding dependencies, plus:

Project Version Required/Optional  
picocontainer 1.2-SNAPSHOT Required. BSD
nanocontainer 1.0-SNAPSHOT Required. BSD
nanocontainer-nanowar 1.0-SNAPSHOT Required. BSD