Creating the http handler SU

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create the http handler bean SU

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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-bean-service-unit archetype, which is used for creating a bean service unit project. The groupId for this archetype is org.apache.servicemix.tooling.

From our tutorial project directory, where we already have the parent pom.xml, we run this command to create a service unit project named http-handler-su:

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

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What is being generated?

First of all, the archetype creates the project directory, containing:

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

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

Further reading

• Maven archetypes contains a list of Maven archetypes available with ServiceMix

Proceed to the next step

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