[CXF-6869] Consider adding Spring Boot starter

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.7, 3.2.0
• Component/s: Integration
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Vedran Pavic
• Created: 17/Apr/16 19:19
• Updated: 02/Feb/17 22:00
• Resolved: 08/Jun/16 22:52

Description

I've recently authored a PR in Spring Boot to add support for auto-configuration of CXFServlet and default CXF's configuration:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/pull/5659

The PR was closed with "won't fix" resolution since Boot team are unwilling to add CXF as a dependency to the project. Instead a 3rd party starter was suggested.

The concept of a 3rd party starter is generally encouraged for technologies that don't have first-class support in projects from Spring portfolio. Such 3rd party starters are listed here:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/master/spring-boot-starters/README.adoc

If CXF team is interested, I'm willing to port my PR to CXF.

Note that the original PR was focused around JAX-WS support, but can be easily expanded to include JAX-RS support as well.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: CXF-5495 JAX-RS Spring integration via Configuration annotation
• is related to: CXF-6834 add support for CXF inside Spring Boot
• relates to: CXF-6922 Make JaxRsConfig not interfere with SpringBoot auto configuration process
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #139