4.2. New Features
Netty HTTP transport
There is a new Netty HTTP transport, which can be used in place of the plain HTTP transport. To use the Netty transport, prefix a HTTP URL with
netty://—for example, netty://http://localhost:8080/server. The Netty transport is provided in the following artifacts (for client side and server side respectively):
cxf-rt-transports-http-netty-clientcxf-rt-transports-http-netty-server
UDP transport
New UDP Transport.
HTTPAsyncClient-based HTTP transport
New optional HTTP transport based on Apache HTTP Components HttpAsyncClient.
SOAP over UDP
Support for the protocol, SOAP over UDP.
Message validation
Ability to apply schema validation selectively to incoming or outgoing messages, by setting the
schema-validation-enabled property to IN, OUT, BOTH, or NONE. @SchemaValidationEnabled annotation updated with the type=IN|OUT|BOTH|NONE parameter.
WS-Discovery
Support for WS-Discovery, as follows:
- Services can send
HelloorByewhen started or stopped and can also respond to probe requests. - An API for sending probes and resolving to
EndpointReferencesis provided.
JAX-RS 2.0 specification
Initial support for parts of the JAX-RS 2.0 (JSR-339) specification, as follows:
- Additional methods on the
WebClientclass to provide asynchronous invocations. - Support for new filters, interceptors, dynamic features, exception classes, and more.
