Unable add facets project AnnotationWebService CXF 2-x Web Services

Unable add facets project AnnotationWebService CXF 2-x Web Services

Unable to add the follwing facets to project AnnotationWebService: CXF 2.x Web Services.

If you are getting below exception while creating annotation based web service using apache CXF:

Unable to add the follwing facets to project AnnotationWebService: CXF 2.x Web Services.
    org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.FacetedProjectFrameworkException: Failed while installing CXF 2.x Web Services 1.0.
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.callDelegate(FacetedProject.java:1507)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.modifyInternal(FacetedProject.java:441)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.mergeChangesInternal(FacetedProject.java:1181)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.access$2(FacetedProject.java:1117)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject$1.run(FacetedProject.java:324)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Workspace.run(Workspace.java:2345)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.modify(FacetedProject.java:339)
    at org.eclipse.jst.ws.internal.consumption.ui.common.FacetOperationDelegate$1.run(FacetOperationDelegate.java:62)
    at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:121)
    Caused by: org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException: CXF Runtime location not set. Please set location in Preferences > Web Services > CXf 2.x Preferences
    at org.eclipse.jst.ws.internal.cxf.facet.CXFFacetInstallDelegate.execute(CXFFacetInstallDelegate.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.internal.FacetedProject.callDelegate(FacetedProject.java:1477)
    ... 8 more

Answer: This exception happens if you didn’t add CXF run time environment and creating web service. Please follow below steps to add CXF run time environment:

• Go to Apache CXF http://cxf.apache.org/download.html site and download binary distribution apache-cxf-3.0.0-milestone2.zip or latest version
• Unzip it to any folder of your choice
• In eclipse click Window –> Preferences

• On Preferences window click Web Services –> CXF 2.x Preferences –> Select CXF Runtime — Click Add

• Add CXF Runtime window browse to select recently downloaded CXF home –> Click Finish

• Select run time click apply –> OK

This should resolve issue Unable add facets project AnnotationWebService CXF 2-x Web Services