Maven POM Information

To use CXF within Maven, you'll need to declare the CXF dependencies in your POM. The CXF groupId is "org.apache.cxf". Here is a small example:

<dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
		<artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-jaxws</artifactId>
		<version>2.0-incubator-RC-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
		<artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>
		<version>2.0-incubator-RC-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
		<artifactId>cxf-rt-ws-security</artifactId>
		<version>2.0-incubator-RC-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</dependency>
</dependencies>

You'll also need to add the Apache Incubator Maven repository:

<repositories>
	<repository>
		<id>apache-snapshots</id>
		<name>Apache SNAPSHOT Repository</name>
		<url>http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/</url>
		<snapshots>
			<enabled>true</enabled>
		</snapshots>
	</repository>
	<repository>
		<id>apache-incubating</id>
		<name>Apache Incubating Repository</name>
		<url>http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-incubating-repository/</url>
	</repository>
</repositories>

Maven Plugin

CXF includes a Maven plugin which can generate artifacts from WSDL. Here is a simple example:

<plugin>
	<groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>
	<artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.0-incubator-RC-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<executions>
		<execution>
			<id>generate-sources</id>
			<phase>generate-sources</phase>
			<configuration>
				<sourceRoot>${basedir}/target/generated/src/main/java</sourceRoot>
				<wsdlOptions>
					<wsdlOption>
						<wsdl>${basedir}/src/main/wsdl/myService.wsdl</wsdl>
					</wsdlOption>
				</wsdlOptions>
			</configuration>
			<goals>
				<goal>wsdl2java</goal>
			</goals>
		</execution>
	</executions>
</plugin>

In this example we're running the wsdl2java goal in the generate-sources phase. CXF will generate artifacts in the <sourceRoot> directory that you specify. Each <wsdlOption> element corresponds to a WSDL that you're generated artifacts for. In the above example we're generating we're specifying the WSDL location via the <wsdl> option.

Other configuration arguments can be include inside the <wsdlOption> element. These pass arguments to the tooling and correspond to the options outlined on the WSDL To Java page.

Example 1: Passing in a JAX-WS Binding file

<configuration>
  <sourceRoot>${basedir}/target/generated/src/main/java</sourceRoot>
  <wsdlOptions>
    <wsdlOption>
      <wsdl>${basedir}/src/main/wsdl/myService.wsdl</wsdl>
      <extraargs>
        <extraarg>-b</extraarg>
        <extraarg>${basedir}/src/main/resources/wsdl/async_binding.xml</extraarg>                              
      </extraargs>
    </wsdlOption>
  </wsdlOptions>
</configuration>

In this example we're specifying that we want CXF to use our JAX-WS binding file. Binding files are a way to customize the output of the artifacts that CXF generates. For instance, it allows you to change the package name CXF uses.

Example 2: Specifying a service to generate artifacts for

<configuration>
  <sourceRoot>${basedir}/target/generated/src/main/java</sourceRoot>
  <wsdlOptions>
    <wsdlOption>
      <wsdl>${basedir}/src/main/wsdl/myService.wsdl</wsdl>
      <extraargs>
        <extraarg>-sn</extraarg>
        <extraarg>MyWSDLService</extraarg>                                                                 
      </extraargs>
    </wsdlOption>
  </wsdlOptions>
</configuration>

In this example we're specifying that we only want to generate artifacts for the service named "MyWSDLService" in the WSDL.