Getting up and running with Web service doesn't take a lot of time using Apache CXF,Spring 2.5.6 and Maven. We can pretty much configure most of the settings using annotations itself. In this article we will create two web services

1. One that takes a string input and sends back the same
2. One that takes a binary input(file attachement) and sends back the uploaded file length

This article assumes you are familiar with Spring 2.5.6 and Maven.

Lets checkout the sample application hello-web-service and walk through the code.