Spring Web Service Client Using Maven with Liferay Portlet

• Create one simple maven base project in Eclipse.
• Save your wsdl file in the resource directory with WSDL extension. Make sure about the extension
• Copy following build and dependencies tag. 

<build>

    <plugins>

        <plugin>

            <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>

            <artifactId>cxf-codegen-plugin</artifactId>

            <version>${cxf.version}</version>

            <executions>

                <execution>

                    <id>generate-sources</id>

                    <phase>generate-sources</phase>

                    <configuration>

                    <sourceRoot>src/main/java</sourceRoot>

                    <wsdlOptions>

                        <wsdlOption>

                            <wsdl>${basedir}/src/main/resources/TestService.wsdl</wsdl>

                        </wsdlOption>

                    </wsdlOptions>

                    </configuration>

                    <goals>

                        <goal>wsdl2java</goal>

                    </goals>

                </execution>

            </executions>

            <dependencies>

                <dependency>

                    <groupId>xerces</groupId>

                    <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>

                    <version>2.9.1</version>

                </dependency>

            </dependencies>

        </plugin>

    </plugins>

</build>

    <dependencies>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>

            <artifactId>cxf-tools-common</artifactId>

            <version>${cxf.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>

            <artifactId>cxf-rt-frontend-simple</artifactId>

            <version>${cxf.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.apache.cxf</groupId>

            <artifactId>cxf-rt-transports-http</artifactId>

            <version>${cxf.version}</version>

        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <properties>

        <cxf.version>2.7.7</cxf.version>

    </properties>

• build maven project “mvn clean install -DskipTests”
• Use service class to get ServiceImplPort class. Then call your method. E.g. testService.getTestServiceImplPort().getTest();
• In your portlet pom file. Add dependency for your maven project your have created in first step. 
• Build your portlet with maven. Jar file for the services will be copied in the lib of portlet war file.

To Read more about CXF, Please visit http://cxf.apache.org/docs/using-cxf-with-maven.html