The Axis Archetype

This archetype provides a bunch of Maven 2 projects.

These projects are:

  • parent project which contains the other projects.
  • api project which uses java2wsdl to create the WebService descriptor from a Java interface. It provides a jar file with the compiled interface and the wsdl file.
  • server side project which uses wsdl2java to create the server side classes of the WebService. It uses the wsdl file contained in the api jar file. It provides a jar file with the compiled classes.
  • webapp project which uses the server side jar file to provide a deployable WebService.
  • client side project which uses wsdl2java to create the client side stubs fo accessing the WebService. It uses the wsdl file contained inthe api jar file. It use cargo to deploy the WebService webapp in tomcat before running the tests.

To have the projects generated run: 

  mvn archetype:create 
    -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo.archetypes 
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=axis-archetype 
    -DarchetypeVersion=1.0-SNAPSHOT 
    -DgroupId=<my.groupid> 
    -DartifactId=<my-artifactId>

Then change directory to my-artifactId and run:

  mvn install