You may come across a scenario where you want to stop listing of the exposed service from given endpoint. This can be achieved by setting the property " org.apache.cxf.endpoint.private " to true as shown in following snippet: < jaxrs:server id = "serivceId" address = "/test" > . . . < jaxrs:properties > < entry key = "org.apache.cxf.endpoint.private" value = "true" /> </ jaxrs:properties > </ jaxrs:server > This will stop the listing of the service when url http://server:port/ test is typed in the browser.
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