Apache CXF Install on Ubuntu 14.04 - 2020

Apache CXF is an open source services framework. CXF helps us to build and develop services using frontend programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS. These services can speak a variety of protocols such as SOAP, XML/HTTP, RESTful HTTP, or CORBA and work over a variety of transports such as HTTP, JMS or JBI.

This chapter is based on : Apache CXF.

CXF uses Maven as its build and management tool:

$ sudo apt-get install maven
$ mvn -v
Apache Maven 3.0.5
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.7.0_65, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-35-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

The source code can be checked out anonymously over HTTPs by doing:

$ git clone https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cxf.git

$ which git
/usr/bin/git

$ git --version
git version 1.9.1

Before building CXF, we need to setup an environment variable to give Maven more memory:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M"

To build CXF simply execute (from within the 'trunk' directory, cxf/maven-plugins):

$ mvn install

Note: For subsequent builds (e.g., after code changes are made), run "mvn clean" first to build from scratch, before using one of the mvn install commands above.