2.2. Beginner - Creating our first SU module

Now, we are going to INLINE

create our first 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 servicemix-service-unit archetype, which is used for creating a 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 tutorial-file-su:

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

What is being generated?

First of all, the archetype creates the project directory, 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

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

• used the groupId from the parent pom.xml for our new service unit
• added a module to the parent pom.xml xml <modules> <module>tutorial-file-su</module> </modules>

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