The second maintenance release for Mule 2.0 is now available for download. This release includes new support for [proxying web services], [stream-based XPath routing], a more efficient XSLT engine, major improvements to the Jetty transport and Scripting module,...

Here is a quick example on DZone of how to build a web service using Mule, CXF and Spring: http://java.dzone.com/articles/web-services-with-mule-cxf-and