1.04 Creating our second SU module

On this page, we are going to create our second SU module in our project .

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 cxf-se archetype, which is used for creating a servicemix-cxf-se service unit project.

From SMX_HOME/bin directory, we run this command to create a service unit project named :

in MS Windows:

 
smx-arch su cxf-se

in GNU\Linux:

 
./smx-arch su cxf-se

Maven executes the archetype and reports BUILD SUCCESSFUL when it's done. (For more information run smx-arch help)

 
c:\java\apache-servicemix-3.2.1\bin>smx-arch su cxf-se
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
...
[INFO] OldArchetype created in dir: c:\java\apache-servicemix-3.2.1\bin\my-cxf-s
e-su
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Jul 30 08:52:24 CEST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/14M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Add this SU project to directory of our project

We copy directory my-cxf-se-su to directory of our project.(where is parent's pom.xml)
Then we add this to parent's pom.xml to element project.

 
  <modules>
     <module>my-cxf-se-su</module>
  </modules>

Finally, parent's pom.xml looks like this:

 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.apache.servicemix</groupId>
  <artifactId>myExamples</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <name>ServiceMix  :: CXF WSDL example</name>
  <url>http://servicemix.org</url>
  <modules>
      <module>my-cxf-se-su</module>
  </modules>
</project>

What is being generated?

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

• a pom.xml file for building the service unit project
• a directory src/main/resources, in which we will create our xbean.xml file for configuring the service unit
• a directory src/main/java, in which we will create com/mycompany/ExampleService.java for implementing our service.

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