We are building web services and in our approach multiple maven projects would be consumers of the service WSDL in order to generate their server / client stubs. I think it would be good to have a project of packaging type wsdl and then have consumer projects depend on that artifact. Has anybody tried to do this or is there a better pattern for doing this? I found one reference on the web about this : http://myarch.com/using-maven-repository-as-web-services-registry Possibly the hard part would be integrating with existing wsdl2java plugins that expect a file path to the WSDL file. I would guess that I would have to customize one to automatically grab depencies of type wsdl and then pass them to the code generator.
Peter Hayes <http://www.linkedin.com/in/petehayes> Architecture & Shared Technology Services | Fidelity Investments Management Technology
