[Maven 2] Archetypes

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Archetypes

[A maven archetype is a] template of a project which is combined with some user input to produce a working Maven project that has been tailored to the user's requirements
maven Getting Started Guide

Used by the archetype plugin
- Documentation
Works outside a project
- Of course, because this is a bootstrap mechanism
Parameters must be set via -Dproperty=value
- There is no pom.xml yet

mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=archetypeGroupId \
                     -DarchetypeArtifactId=archetypeArtifactId \
                     -DarchetypeVersion=archetypeVersion \
                     -DgroupId=newProjectGroupId \
                     -DartifactId=newProjectArtifactId

There are several archetypes that already exist
- Archetypes are artifacts themselves: get them from the remote repository
- groupId: org.apache.maven.archetypes (default)
  - Have a look: http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetypes/
  - Try them now
- Other archetypes around the web
You can easily create your own archetypes, and store them in your own repository
- Based on Velocity
- Guide to Creating Archetypes