How portable/compatible is JBossWS-CXF?

Question

How portable or compatible is JBossWS-CXF? My impression is that it is a "hybrid" because of a statement on the JBoss web site that states that it supports "almost all" of the features of CXF. If the goal is to produce services packaged as SAR files that can easily be deployed to application servers other than JBoss, if necessary, then should I stick with vanilla Apache CXF or use JBossWS-CXF?

Answer 1

If you stick with "pure JAX-WS" stuff, then the services should be completely portable to other applications servers. The hybrid nature comes from allowing a lot of the extra CXF features that don't have any equivalence in the JAX-WS spec. For example, if you use CXF's support for WS-Security, then the application would not be directly portable to another app server (unless they also use CXF). You would need to port that part of the code/configuration to whatever configuration is required for WS-Security on that app server.