Fuse ESB provides a Maven plug-in and a number of Maven archetypes that make developing, packaging, and deploying JBI artifacts easier. The tooling provides you with a number of benefits including:
Because Fuse ESB only allows you to deploy service assemblies, you will need to do the following when using the Maven JBI tooling:
Set up a top-level project to build all of the service units and the final service assembly.
Create a project for each of your service units..
Create a project for the service assembly.