Creating the CXF-BC Service Unit

On this page we are going to create the cxf-bc service unit. .

Using a Maven archetype to create the service unit project

ServiceMix provides several Maven archetypes to help you create your projects more rapidly and reliably. We start off by using the servicemix-cxf-bc-service-unit archetype, which is used for creating a servicemix-cxf-bc service unit project.

From our tutorial project directory where we already have the root pom.xml we run the following command to create a service unit project.

 
mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling 
                     -DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-cxf-bc-service-unit 
                     -DgroupId=org.apache.servicemix.examples 
                     -DartifactId=my-cxf-bc-su

Maven executes the archetype and reports BUILD SUCCESSFUL when it's done.

 
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
[INFO] OldArchetype created in dir: c:\home\Diplomka\_mySA\tutorial-wsdl-cxf-ser
vice\my-cxf-bc-su
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 7 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 05 07:56:59 CEST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/14M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

What is being generated?

First of all, the archetype creates the project directory my-cxf-bc-su, containing:

  • a pom.xml file for building the service unit project
  • a directory src/main/resources with a xbean.xml file for configuring the service unit
  • a directory src/main/resources with a service.wsdl for description our webservice.

Because we started Maven's archetype:create from the directory containing our parent pom.xml Maven has also
added a module to the parent's pom.xml <modules> section.

 
 <module>my-cxf-bc-su</module>

Now, we will have to configure this service unit to provide the services we want.

Proceed to the next step