Bindings map a particular service's messages to a particular protocol. CXF includes support
for several different bindings.
The SOAP binding, which is the default, maps messages to SOAP and can be used with the various WS-* modules inside CXF. The Pure XML binding avoids serialization of a SOAP envelope and just sends a raw XML message. There is also an HTTP Binding which maps a service to HTTP using RESTful semantics.