Deploying EIP Endpoints in a JBI Service Unit

Creating an EIP service unit using Maven

To create an EIP service unit using Maven, change directory to the location where you want to put the Maven project, and enter the following Maven command:

mvn archetype:create
    -DremoteRepositories=http://repo.open.iona.com/maven2
    -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling
    -DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-eip-service-unit
    -DarchetypeVersion=3.4.0.0-fuse
    -DgroupId=YourGroupId
    -DartifactId=YourArtifactId

Where YourGroupId is the group ID for the new project, which is usually specified in the form of a reverse hostname (for example, com.fusesource.demo) and YourArtifactId is an identifier for this project (for example, simple-eip-su).

	Note
	There are some alternative approaches you can use to run the Maven archetype: you could run the archetype within the Eclipse IDE, if you have installed the `m2eclipse` plug-in; or you could run the FUSE ESB `smx-arch` utility, by entering the command `smx-arch su eip`.

Service unit configuration

To configure EIP endpoints in the JBI service unit, edit the xbean.xml file (located in src/main/resources, in the Maven project) and embed your endpoints at the point shown in the following example:

<beans xmlns:eip="http://servicemix.apache.org/eip/1.0">

  ... add eip patterns here ...

</beans>

In the default xbeans.xml file generated by the Maven archetype, there is a collection of sample EIP patterns already defined in the beans element. You can use one or more of these samples as a starting point for defining your own routes and you can delete the samples you do not need.

Build the Maven project

To build the EIP service unit as a Maven project, change directory to the root of the project (this directory has the same name as the project's artifact ID) and enter the following command:

mvn install

After a successful build, you can find the SU package in the YourArtifactId/target directory.

Service assembly

To complete the packaging of the EIP project, you must add the EIP service unit to a JBI service assembly.

Deployment options

After packaging the EIP project, you can deploy it in one of the following ways:

Drop the installer ZIP into the hotdeploy directory monitored by FUSE ESB.
Use the appropriate Ant tasks. See Using the JBI Ant Tasks in Configuring and Running the Container.

For full details about JBI deployment options, see Configuring and Running the Container.