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Using Maven to build Axis 2 projects

Axis 2 provides three Maven plug-ins to build projects. These plug-ins are used to replace the commandline tools or Ant scripts usually used. The plug-ins must be declared inside the pom.xml file of your project. For the following two plug-ins I want to document my experiences as it was somehow tricky to get them working. "AAR Plug-in":http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/1_3/maven-plugins/maven-aar-plugin.html : Generates an Axis 2 service file (AAR file). This one was quite easy. Just setting the filesets was needed. As I had one WSDL and 2 related XSD files I had to set them to explicitly copy them to META-INF: 
...
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
                <artifactId>axis2-aar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.3</version>
                <configuration>

                    <fileSets>
                        <fileSet>
                            <directory>${basedir}/src/main/axis2</directory>
                            <outputDirectory>META-INF</outputDirectory>
                            <includes>
                                <include>**/*.xml</include>
                                <include>**/*.xsd</include>
                                <include>**/*.wsdl</include>
                            </includes>
                        </fileSet>

                    </fileSets>

                    <servicesXmlFile>${basedir}/src/main/axis2/services.xml</servicesXmlFile>
                    <wsdlFile>${basedir}/src/main/axis2/loginservice.wsdl</wsdlFile>
                    <wsdlFileName>loginservice.wsdl</wsdlFileName>
                </configuration>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>aar</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
...
The "WSDL2Code Plug-in":http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/1_3/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html takes as input a WSDL and generates client and server stubs for calling or implementing a Web service matching the WSDL. This plug-in caused some problems when used as described on the "official plug-in guide page":http://ws.apache.org/axis2/tools/1_3/maven-plugins/maven-wsdl2code-plugin.html . The guide provides the following snippet: 
    <build>
    	<plugins>
    		<plugin>
    			<groupId>org.apache.axis2.maven2</groupId>
    			<artifactId>axis2-wsdl2code-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   			<executions>
    				<execution>
    					<goals>
    						<goal>wsdl2code</goal>
    					</goals>
    				</execution>
		    	</executions>
		    	<configuration>
    				<packageName>com.foo.myservice</packageName>
    		 	</configuration>
    		</plugin>
    	</plugins>
    </build>
When invoking directly as recommended with
mvn wsdl2code:wsdl2code
I got an build error: 

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'wsdl2code'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-wsdl2code-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using axis2-wsdl2code:wsdl2code instead solves this problem. But then the next problem is: 

[INFO] [axis2-wsdl2code:wsdl2code]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] javax/wsdl/WSDLException
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/wsdl/WSDLException
        at org.apache.axis2.maven2.wsdl2code.WSDL2CodeMojo.execute(WSDL2CodeMojo.java:396)
        at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultPluginManager.java:447)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:463)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:311)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeTaskSegments(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:278)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:143)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:333)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:126)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:282)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Changing the group id from 'org.apache.axis2.maven2' to 'org.apache.axis2' and setting the version number explicitely to 1.3 like the following solves this problem, too: 
...
<groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
<artifactId>axis2-wsdl2code-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3</version>
...
The description how to configure the plug-in is a bit unclear as it says you should set the paramters from the command line. But with Maven the configuration is done inside the enclosing configuration tags. I.e. for each configuration parameter you create an own XML tag. For example for databinding and packagename params you would add the following tags: 
...
<configuration>
<databindingName>xmlbeans</databindingName>
<packageName>your.pkg.name.here</packageName>
</configuration>
...
With this in mind "WSDL to Code" and AAR packaging for Axis 2 can be integrated smoothly into Maven.
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