Writing a webservice for ServiceMix using Apache CXF

This tutorial teaches you how you can do a webservice for ServiceMix using the CXF framework.

Goals of the document

This example shows how to expose a webservice with servicemix-cxf-se/bc, starting from the
pure WSDL and exposing it via servicemix-cxf-bc.

Description of webservice

This webservice is a simple hello-user example. The client will send a user name and the webservice will reply with a greeting.

Apache CXF Framework

The Apache CXF framework is an open source framework which helps you develop webservices using frontend programming APIs like JAX-WS.
These services can communicate over many protocols. For example: SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP. They can communicate over many transports.
For example HTTP, JMS or JBI.

Goals

• using Maven to develop JBI service units and service assembly
• using xbean.xml files to configure routes and services in ServiceMix
• writing WSDL file to define our webservice
• writing a java class to implement our webservice

After finishing this tutorial you have a working webservice. Feel free to play around with it and adding improvements.

Prerequisites

• basic knowledges about development in Java
• basic knowledges about web services (especialy about WSDL)
• basic knowledges about deployment services in ServiceMix

Contents

Start this tutorial (← 1.01 Creating the Maven project)