Hello!
Sorry fot his newbie question. But I really need a start on this one. I want to access a webservice in my JEE project. This webservice offers a WSDL file. So I understand I can use this to build Java code from it to access the web service. Now I read that Apache CXF is a good framework that I can use. But what's the difference to JAX-WS?
Could someone please explain this to me?
Thank you!
JAX-WS is an API (or specification) and CXF is an implementation of that API. There is also a reference implementation available here
JAX-WS is a Specification (provided by Sun, now Oracle) to defining Web Services by use of Annotations.
Apache CXF is a framework that implements JAX-WS to generate Web Services Definitions and Java Proxy (from a Web Service Definitions)
Apache Axis 2 is also a framework that now supports JAX-WS (up to JAX-WS 2). It's an improvement from Apache Axis. CXF supports up to JAX-WS 1.2.
Brief tutorial can be found here.