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"Stop using Tomcat and wondering why JEE "doesn't work." You're doing yourself a big disservice. Start thinking about JBoss AS 6, or GlassFish v3 - Yes, I know, it's a "Full JEE Container," - it's "Heavy," but with JEE6, that's not a bad thing: It all "Just works" and it works really well. Trust me, the reason people have thought Java EE sucks, is because they try to do this stuff on Tomcat, and say "Why doesn't (JPA, JMS, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work?" Well… that's because Tomcat only gives you Servlet - the Request/Response lifecycle. So people install all these things manually, or try to, and then say, "Wow, Java EE is really hard to use, shit, I'm gonna use Spring or Grails instead.""

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps you build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI. CXF includes a broad feature set, but it is primarily focused on the following areas: Web Services Standards Support: CXF supports a variety of web service standards including SOAP, the WS-I Basic Profile, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security, WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConverstation, and WS-Trust (partial). Frontends: CXF supports a variety of "frontend" programming models. CXF implements the JAX-WS APIs (TCK compliant). CXF JAX-WS support includes some extensions to the standard that make it significantly easier to use, compared to the reference implementation: It will automatically generate code for request and response bean classes, and does not require a WSDL for simple cases. It also includes a "simple frontend" which allows creation of clients and endpoints without annotations. CXF supports both contract first development with WSDL and code first development starting from Java. For REST, CXF also supports a JAX-RS (TCK compliant) frontend. Ease of use: CXF is designed to be intuitive and easy to use. There are simple APIs to quickly build code-first services, Maven plug-ins to make tooling integration easy, JAX-WS API support, Spring 2.x XML support to make configuration a snap, and much more. Binary and Legacy Protocol Support: CXF has been designed to provide a pluggable architecture that supports not only XML but also non-XML type bindings, such as JSON and CORBA, in combination with any type of transport. To get started using CXF, check out the downloads, the user's guide, or the mailing lists to get more information!

Atmosphere is a POJO based framework using Inversion of Control (IoC) to bring push/Comet and Websocket to the masses! Finally a framework which can run on any Java based Web Server, including Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish, Weblogic, Grizzly, JBossWeb and JBoss, Resin, etc. without having to learn how Comet or WebSocket support has been differently implemented by all those Containers. The Atmosphere Framework has both client (JQuery PlugIn) and server components. Servlet 3.0 is supported along with framework like Jersey (natively), GWT (natively), Wicket, Guice, Spring etc. and programming language like JRuby, Gr oovy and Scala. We also support massive scalability with our Cluster plugin architecture (JGroups, JMS/ActiveMQ, Redis, XMPP,i etc.)