JAX-WS Create WS using Maven

Article describes setting up JAX-WS using Maven and various ways to deploy the webservice . Creating WS using JAX-WS is super simple , simply annotate the class with @WebService and its basically done. Simpicity is good not only for development but also creating mock services and testing error cases. Maven makes it more reusable be able to distibute easily to developers. Also maven takes care of wsgen and dependent libraries. I use Tomcat 7 and running Java 6 . If you are using Java7 , wsgen fails ( yeah it has to be fixed) , so till then configure the IDE to use Java6 for the project   
Java Code - Your WebService ( Simple .. basically you can return POJO or collection of objects for practical use case)
folder - src/main/java

package com.services;

import javax.jws.WebMethod;
import javax.jws.WebService;
@WebService

public class MyService {

 @WebMethod
 public String sayHello()
 {
  return "Hello World";
 }
}

Pom.xml
folder - project folder

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
 <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 <groupId>com.myws.testws</groupId>
 <artifactId>TestWS</artifactId>
 <packaging>war</packaging>
 <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

 <name>Test Webservice</name>
 <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
 
 <dependencies>
    <dependency>
  <groupId>com.sun.xml.ws</groupId>
  <artifactId>jaxws-rt</artifactId>
  <version>2.1.3</version>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>

 <build>
  
  <plugins>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
     <configuration>
     <failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
    </configuration>
   </plugin>
   <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.7</version>
    <executions>
     <execution>
      <id>generate-wsdl</id>
      <phase>process-classes</phase>
      <goals>
       <goal>wsgen</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
       <sei>com.services.MyService</sei>
       <genWsdl>true</genWsdl>
      </configuration>
     </execution>
    
    </executions>
   </plugin>

   
  </plugins>
 </build>
</project>

Running it using EndPoint
Using Endpoint just use the publisher and WebService is running .

package com.services;

import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
 

public class MyServicePublisher{
 
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8888/TestWS/MyService", new MyService());
    }
 
}

test service : http://localhost:888/TestWS/MyService?wsdl
Running it in Tomcat.
My preferred method is to run it in tomcat . You will need couple of more files
web.xml
folder :src/webapp/WEB-INF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, 
Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_3.dtd">
 
<web-app>
    <listener>
        <listener-class>
                com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServletContextListener
        </listener-class>
    </listener>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>myservice</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
         com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.WSServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>myservice</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/myservice</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>120</session-timeout>
    </session-config>
</web-app>

sun-jaxws.xml
folder :src/webapp/WEB-INF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<endpoints
  xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jax-ws/ri/runtime"
  version="2.0">
  <endpoint
      name="MyService"
      implementation="com.services.MyService"
      url-pattern="/myservice"/>
</endpoints>

Deploy the war file to tomcat
test deployment : http://localhost:8080/TestWS/myservice?wsdl