Current Roadmap for future versions of CXF. (this is an ongoing "work in progress", subject to change.)

CXF versions 2.0.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.0.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk/2.1.x on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

Notice: 2.0.12 will be the last official release of the 2.0.x series.

CXF version 2.1.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.1.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

However, some new features have been back ported from the 2.2 branch (trunk) to provide some new functionality to users quicker. These include:

• Continuations
• True asynchronous client requests
• Request/Response contexts for simple frontend clients and Dynamic clients
• New spring based JMS transport

In general, 2.1.x releases occur about every 8 weeks.

CXF version 2.2.x

These should just be a bug fix releases for bugs users encounter with 2.2.x versions. These will be done on a branch by selectively merging fixes from trunk on an as-needed basis. For the most part, there would be fixes for:

• XFire migration issues
• Any interopability issues
• Critical show stoppers
• etc....

However, some new features may be back ported from trunk to provide some new functionality to users quicker if it doesn't affect the existing stuff or can enhance some of the new features in 2.2. Some examples that MAY be ported back:

• JAX-RS enhancements - particularly around WADL support
• WS-SecurityPolicy support for Java first use cases

CXF version 2.3

New features are being developed here to be released "when ready". The current plan is in Q3/09, but subject to slippage if we the features aren't releasable. Features on the roadmap include:

• JAX-RS 1.1 (providing spec is finalized and TCK available)
• JAX-WS 2.2 (providing spec is finalized and TCK available)
• SOAP/TCP support (GSoC project)
• SOAP/JMS spec compliance (GSoC project)
• SDO databinding (GSoC project)
• Additional Annotation driven development/configuration

More may be added if people submit new code. If you want something added, please contribute!

Future version - some will likely go into 2.3

• XmlBeans tooling (wsdl2java support)
• JiBX databinding (runtime, tooling is lower priority)
• Better Acegi integration
• Update to WS-RM 1.1
• Enhancements to WS-Trust support (STS possibly, SAML2 support through new WSS4J, etc...)
• Other WS-* stuff