Codehaus XFire is a Java SOAP framework for development and consumption of web services.
Unlike earlier similar products, such as Apache Axis 1.x that use in-memory tree models (such as DOM) for XML, XFire uses StAX resulting in better performance.. Apache Axis2 also uses StAX.
XFire provides support for:
XFire is no longer in development and has been superseded by Apache CXF.