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Developing JAX-WS Web Services with CXF and Eclipse

The JAX-WS Tools is working on creating tools, based on the Eclipse Webtools frameworks, for developing JAX-WS services

How to get the CXF tools plugin for Eclipse?

You can download the tools plugin from here

If you prefer to get the snapshot version of tools eclipse plugin, you can check out the source or download the source tar tall, and follow the steps below

> cd tools/eclipse-plugin/
> mvn install

You can find the zip file under the target directory.

What's inside the plugin?

The plugin just pack the wsdl2java, java2wsdl tools and their dependencies, we don't include the runtime at moment.

Which version of Eclipse does tools support?

Currently we support Eclipse 3.1 or higher

How to install the plugin?

Just copy the zip file into the eclipse plugins directory, and unzip the plugin under the directory

How do I use the plugin?

The links below will give you some ideas. Step-by-step instructions are now available.

Whose using the plugin?

Currently the Eclipse plugin is only used by Eclipse STP project.
You can find more instructions in STP web site.
Also, here is a good tutorial tell you how to 'Use the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform plug-in to build and deploy a Web service'
NOTE: The tutorial is out of date, please use this page to get started with STP service creation.

If you are integrating the plugin in your environment, please let us know, or change this section by self directly.