Fuse Services Framework is an open source SOAP and REST web services platform based on Apache CXF

Apache CXF

Apache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache...

 for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is productized and supported by the Fuse group at FuseSource Corp. Fuse Services Framework service-enables new and existing systems for use in enterprise SOA infrastructure.

Fuse Services Framework is a pluggable, small-footprint engine that creates high performance, secure and robust services in minutes using front-end programming APIs like JAX-WS

JAX-WS

The Java API for XML Web Services is a Java programming language API for creating web services. It is part of the Java EE platform from Sun Microsystems. Like the other Java EE APIs, JAX-WS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients...

 and JAX-RS

JAX-RS

JAX-RS: Java API for RESTful Web Services is a Java programming language API that provides support in creating web services according to the Representational State Transfer architectural style...

. It supports multiple transports and bindings and is extensible so developers can add bindings for additional message formats so all systems can work together without having to communicate through a centralized server.

Fuse Services Framework is part of a family of enterprise open source SOA infrastructure tools that include Fuse ESB

FUSE ESB

Fuse ESB is an open source integration platform based on Apache ServiceMix that supports JBI and OSGi for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...

 (based on Apache ServiceMix

Apache ServiceMix

Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture . It was built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License...

), Fuse Message Broker

FUSE Message Broker

Fuse Message Broker is an open source JMS message broker that is based on Apache ActiveMQ for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...

 (based on Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ

Apache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker which fully implements the Java Message Service 1.1 . It provides "Enterprise Features" like clustering, multiple message stores, and ability to use any database as a JMS persistence provider besides VM, cache, and journal persistency.Apart from...

) and Fuse Mediation Router

FUSE Mediation Router

Fuse Mediation Router is an open source tool for integrating services using Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Apache Camel for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...

 (based on Apache Camel

Apache Camel

Apache Camel is a rule-based routing and mediation engine which provides a Java object-based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns using an API to configure routing and mediation rules...

).

See also

• Message-oriented middleware
  Message-oriented middleware
  Message-oriented middleware is software or hardware infrastructure supporting sending and receiving messages between distributed systems. MOM allows application modules to be distributed over heterogeneous platforms and reduces the complexity of developing applications that span multiple...
  
  
• Enterprise messaging system
  Enterprise messaging system
  An enterprise messaging system is a set of published Enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. EMS systems promote loosely coupled architectures that allow changes in the formats of messages to have minimum impact on...
  
  
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
  Enterprise Integration Patterns
  Enterprise Integration Patterns is a book by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf and describes a number of design patterns for the use of enterprise application integration and message-oriented middleware....
  
  
• Service-oriented architecture
  Service-oriented architecture
  In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...
  
  
• Event-driven SOA
  Event-driven SOA
  Event-driven SOA is a form of service-oriented architecture , combining the intelligence and proactiveness of event-driven architecture with the organizational capabilities found in service offerings...
  
  

External links

• Fuse Services Framework (Enterprise CXF) web site
• Apache CXF getting started resources
• CamelOne 2011 Conference
• Apache CXF web site
• Fuse Services Framework (Enterprise CXF) documentation
• Fuse Services Framework (Enterprise CXF) forums
• Fuse Services Framework (Enterprise CXF) enterprise support
• Fuse community web site