Publishing an endpoint with the API

Once your Servlet is registered in your web.xml, you should set the default bus with CXFServlet's bus to make sure that CXF uses it as its HTTP Transport. Simply publish with the related path "Greeter" and your service should appear at the address you specify:

import javax.xml.ws.Endpoint;
import org.apache.cxf.Bus;
import org.apache.cxf.BusFactory;
import org.apache.cxf.transport.servlet.CXFServlet;
.....
// cxf is the instance of the CXFServlet, you could also get
// this instance by extending the CXFServlet
Bus bus = cxf.getBus();
BusFactory.setDefaultBus(bus); 
Endpoint.publish("/Greeter", new GreeterImpl());

The one thing you must ensure is that your CXFServlet is set up to listen on that path. Otherwise the CXFServlet will never receive the requests.

NOTE:

Endpoint.publish(...) is a JAX-WS API for publishing JAX-WS endpoints. Thus, it would require the JAX-WS module and APIs to be present. If you are not using JAX-WS or want more control over the published endpoint properties, you should replace that call with the proper calls to the appropriate ServerFactory.

Since CXFServlet know nothing about the web container listening port and the application context path, you need to specify the relative path instead of the full http address.