Apache ServiceMix provides a set of Maven archetypes for many different purposes, such as for creation of JBI components, service assemblies or service units for particular ServiceMix components.

Usage

Standard Maven syntax

You can utilize an archetype by issueing the following command:

mvn archetype:create \
    -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling \
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-archetype-name \
    -DarchetypeVersion=archetype-version \
    -DgroupId=org.apache.servicemix.samples.embedded \
    -DartifactId=servicemix-embedded-example \
    -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT

You need to replace servicemix-archetype-name by the name of the archetype you want to utilize.

This will use the latest released version of the archetype available in the repository. Optionally, you can also specify a specific version to use with the -DarchetypeVersion=VERSION parameter.

If you are using an *-incubating version of ServiceMix (e.g. 3.1.1-incubating), you have to either:

• add an additional parameter (-DremoteRepositories=http://repository.apache.org/content/groups/public) to the command above
• or you can configure the additional repository as described in Configuring Maven (3.x-incubating versions only)

smx-arch

ServiceMix also ships with smx-arch (or smx-arch.bat for Windows), available in the bin directory of the distribution. It provides a more convenient way for using the archetypes:

Usage: smx-arch command [su-type] [args]
  commands:
    sl                Creates a new Shared Library"  
    se                Creates a new Service Engine"
    bc                Creates a new Binding Component"
    sa                Creates a new Service Assembly"
    su                Creates a generic Service Unit"
    su [type]         Creates a SU of the specified type"
  SU types:
                      http-consumer, http-provider,"
                      jms-consumer, jms-provider,"
                      ftp-poller, ftp-sender,"
                      jsr181-annotated, jsr181-wsdl-first,"
                      saxon-xquery, saxon-xslt,"
                      eip, lwcontainer, bean, ode"
  Optional arguments:
    -DarchetypeVersion=x.y.z-classifier (if not specified, the latest released version will be used
    -DgroupId=xxxx"
    -DartifactId=xxxx"

List of archetypes

Here is a list of the ServiceMix archetypes that are available. You can also take a look at the current list of available archetypes at https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/public/ or in the archetypes directory in a ServiceMix source distribution.

Basic JBI artifact archetypes

There is a specific archetype available for generating every type of JBI artifact. They are named servicemix-binding-component, servicemix-service-assembly, servicemix-service-engine, servicemix-service-unit and servicemix-shared-library.

Service units

Most of the ServiceMix archetypes can be used to create service unit projects. The list above already mentions servicemix-service-unit, which creates a generic SU project. You still have to add a <dependency/> to the pom.xml yourself for the JBI component you want to target.

These other archetypes already generate a SU targeted at a specific component. They also provide an xbean.xml file and sometimes some additional sample files.