To help you get started quickly, you can invoke a Maven archetype to generate the initial outline of a Maven project (a Maven archetype is analogous to a project wizard). The following Maven archetypes can generate projects for building OSGi bundles:

The Apache CXF code-first archetype creates a project for building a service from Java. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, GroupId:ArtifactId:Version, enter the following command:

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling
-DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-cxf-code-first-osgi-bundle
-DarchetypeVersion=2012.01.0.fuse-71-047
-DgroupId=GroupId
-DartifactId=ArtifactId
-Dversion=Version

	Note
	The arguments to the mvn command are shown on separate lines purely for the sake of readability. When you are entering the command at a command prompt, you must ensure that all of the parameters are on the same line.

The Apache CXF WSDL-first archetype creates a project for building a service from WSDL. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, GroupId:ArtifactId:Version, enter the following command:

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling
-DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-cxf-wsdl-first-osgi-bundle
-DarchetypeVersion=2012.01.0.fuse-71-047
-DgroupId=GroupId
-DartifactId=ArtifactId
-Dversion=Version

The Apache Camel OSGi archetype creates a project for building a route that can be deployed into the OSGi container. To generate a Maven project with the coordinates, GroupId:ArtifactId:Version, enter the following command:

mvn archetype:generate
-DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.servicemix.tooling
-DarchetypeArtifactId=servicemix-camel-osgi-bundle
-DarchetypeVersion=2012.01.0.fuse-71-047
-DgroupId=GroupId
-DartifactId=ArtifactId
-Dversion=Version

By default, the preceding archetypes create a project in a new directory, whose names is the same as the specified artifact ID, ArtifactId. To build the bundle defined by the new project, open a command prompt, go to the project directory (that is, the directory containing the pom.xml file), and enter the following Maven command:

mvn install

The effect of this command is to compile all of the Java source files, to generate a bundle JAR under the ArtifactId/target directory, and then to install the generated JAR in the local Maven repository.