Example using the Client Element - 8.0

The example below shows a the configuration for an HTTP client that wants to keep its connection to the server open between requests, will only retransmit requests once per invocation, and cannot use chunking streams.

HTTP Consumer Endpoint Configuration

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xmlns:http-conf="http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration"
   xsi:schemaLocation="
      http://cxf.apache.org/transports/http/configuration
      http://cxf.apache.org/schemas/configuration/http-conf.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd">

   <http-conf:conduit name=
      "{http://apache.org/hello_world_soap_http}SoapPort.http-conduit">
      <http-conf:client Connection="Keep-Alive"
         MaxRetransmits="1"
         AllowChunking="false" />
   </http-conf:conduit>
</beans>

Again, see the Configuration page for information on how to get CXF to detect your configuration file.