ApacheCon EU 2014

WebSocket is a full-duplex transport protocol developed as part of HTML5 and has caught attention not only for Browser applications but also also for application integration. This simple HTTP based protocol can operate over a single socket and does not suffer from network restriction such as proxies and firewalls when establishing a duplex channel.

New WebSocket support in Apache CXF can be used to invoke an asynchronous JAX-WS service over a single WebSocket connection instead of using two separate HTTP connections, to establish a direct node connection in a cluster environment, and to asynchronously push data from a JAX-RS service to its client. And Apache Camel now supporting both the client and server side WebSockets can be used to integrate and compose various WebSocket applications with other applications.

Apache CXF supports a full range of SOAP extension technologies. Two of the most important extensions are WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging. The WS-Security family of technologies add message-level security to basic SOAP exchanges, while WS-ReliableMessaging adds delivery assurance options. In this presentation Dennis Sosnoski will show you how WS-Security and WS-ReliableMessaging can be added to your CXF SOAP applications with little or no impact on your application code. He'll also discuss how large organizations are increasingly using these SOAP extension technologies in their operations, including how the government of the Netherlands is applying the technologies to educational and other government sectors. Finally, Dennis will summarize the WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Security enhancements included in the latest CXF 3.0 release.