4.3. API Changes

The HTTPConduit class has been made abstract and the code relating to HttpURLConnection has been moved to URLConnectionHTTPConduit. Several method calls of the HTTPConduit class that used to take HttpURLConnection objects have been eliminated. Moreover, most methods taking a URL object now take a URI object instead. The HTTPConduit.WrappedOutputStream class is also now abstract.

If you have implemented custom subclasses of HTTPConduit, it is probably necessary to refactor them as a subclass URLConnectionHTTPConduit, instead of HTTPConduit.

The VersionTransformer and MAPCodec classes (used for WS-Addressing) now use the header list on the SoapMessage directly, instead of encoding the WS-Addressing headers as DOM elements. The encode methods have therefore been changed to take a JAXBContext argument, instead of a Marshaller argument. Any custom VersionTransformers will need to be updated.

All methods with an argumnet or return value of type, org.apache.cxf.feature.AbstractFeatures, have been changed to use org.apache.cxf.feature.Feature instead.

The following classes have been removed from the JAX-RS library:

org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ResponseReader
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ServerWebApplicationException
org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.ClientWebApplicationException

The first class in the list is not needed with the JAX-RS 2.0 Response class, while the last two classes are replaced by the classes, javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException and javax.ws.rs.client.ClientException.

The STS Claims object now takes a List<String> argument for the claims values, instead of a single String value.

The following CXF JAX-RS specific extensions have been deprecated and will eventually be removed: