How to generate web service Stub from WSDL file with Apache Axis2 Maven Plugin

This wiki describes how to generate web service Stub from a WSDL file with Apache Axis2 MAven Plugin and XmlBeans.

This documentation is the result of the discussion on the Sensor Web mailing list/forum because of problems with wsimport/JAXB/JAX-WS.

Pom.xml file

Here is an example pom.xml file that uses the Apache Axis2 MAven Plugin and XmlBeans to generate a service Stub from the local SOS 4.0.0 instance.

<project>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.n52.sensorweb.sos</groupId>
   <artifactId>wsdl</artifactId>
   <version>1</version>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
         <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
         <version>2.6.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
         <artifactId>axis2-kernel</artifactId>
         <version>1.6.2</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
         <artifactId>axis2-xmlbeans</artifactId>
         <version>1.6.2</version>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
      <plugins>
         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
            <artifactId>axis2-wsdl2code-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.6.2</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>wsdl2code</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <configuration>
                     <packageName>org.n52.sos</packageName>
                     <wsdlFile>http://127.0.0.1:8080/52n-sos-webapp/wsdl?wsdl
                     </wsdlFile>
                     <databindingName>xmlbeans</databindingName>
                  </configuration>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>
      </plugins>
   </build>
</project>

Execute

Here are the steps to generate the Stubs.

• Open a command line
• Go to the folder where the above pom.xml file is located
• Execute mvn package