Using Apache CXF And Maven With a Proxy Server
I discovered a couple of interesting issues when using Apache CXF and Maven behind a proxy this week. It started when I sent out a package of stubs in a Maven project I had built to enable developers of integration systems to regenerate there own stubs from the live WSDL. This project uses the wsdl2java tool from Apache CXF to generate some JAX-WS based SOAP stubs from the WSDL hosted on a staging server on the internet. When run on one of the developers sites it became apparent that the Maven cxf-codegen-plugin doesn’t pass through the already configured Maven proxy settings to wsdl2java, this was a bit annoying. ...