Technofes: MULE HTTP Web Service - Step4. Creating the Mule Web Service Project

We need to create a Mavenized Mule Project in Eclipse. This project is the one that will be used for running the mule application.

1. Create a simple maven project in Eclipse.

Select the Maven Project

Select Create a Simple Project

Provide Group Id & Artifact Id and Click Finish

2. Add the following to your pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.mybusiness</groupId>
    <artifactId>ShippingService</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <releases>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </snapshots>
            <id>MuleRepo</id>
            <name>Mule Repository</name>
            <url>http://repository.muleforge.org/
            </url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <releases>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </snapshots>
            <id>JBossRepo</id>
            <name>JBoss Repository</name>
            <url>
                https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/
            </url>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <releases>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
            </snapshots>
            <id>MuleDependencies</id>
            <name>Mule Dependencies</name>
            <url>http://dist.codehaus.org/mule/dependencies/maven2/</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mule</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-core</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-transport-vm</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mule.transports</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-transport-http</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-module-xml</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
            <type>jar</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.mule.modules</groupId>
            <artifactId>mule-module-saaj</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1.0</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

3. Create log4j.properties file under src/main/resources location. This file helps in seeing the logs on the Eclipse console when the Mule service gets started.

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#  The following properties set the logging levels and log appender.  The
#  log4j.rootCategory variable defines the default log level and one or more
#  appenders.  For the console, use 'C'.  For the daily rolling file, use 'R'.
#  For an HTML formatted log, use 'H'.
#
#  To override the default (rootCategory) log level, define a property of the
#  form (see below for available values):
#
#        log4j.logger. =
#
#    Possible Log Levels:
#      FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG
#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.rootCategory=INFO, C

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Also we can define the levels for different packages.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.logger.org.mule=INFO

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#  The following properties configure the console (stdout) appender.
#  See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/api/index.html for details.
#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
log4j.appender.C = org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
log4j.appender.C.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.C.layout.ConversionPattern = %d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %c{1} [%p] %m%n

4. Create a sample mule-config.xml under src/main/resources folder. This is used to test the workspace and check whether the service is getting started without any issues.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mule xmlns="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.2"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:vm="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.2" 
    xmlns:http="http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/http/2.2"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.2 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/core/2.2/mule.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.2 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/vm/2.2/mule-vm.xsd
       http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/http/2.2 http://www.mulesource.org/schema/mule/http/2.2/mule-http.xsd">
    
</mule>