Hi Gary, > If I'm looking for an archetype of a particular type, how do I find it?
Sorry, I do not know a good way. > Do all archetypes have "archetype" in the group or artifact name? I do not think it is a hard requirement, but the convention is to put "archetype" in the artifactId [1]. And for these projects to focus on serving the archetype and nothing else. Note that there is an edict [2] stating that unofficial Maven plugins are supposed to be named <foo>-maven-plugin and not maven-<foo>-plugin; I do not know if the rule is similar regarding archetypes. Personally, I never use archetypes. I find them confusing, and a bit neglected in the Maven developer community. (Anecdotal evidence: even the tutorial for creating new archetypes [3] does not use the maven-archetype-archetype to create the new archetype, until the end as an "alternative way"!) I find it easier to just copy and paste an existing POM, studying each piece to understand what it does, and editing it as needed. And most Maven tutorials I've seen are structured with that idea in mind. Regards, Curtis [1] Example project: https://github.com/maven-nar/maven-archetype-nar-lib [2] https://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html "Important Notice" [3] https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-creating-archetypes.html "Alternative way to start creating your Archetype" -- Curtis Rueden LOCI software architect - http://loci.wisc.edu/software ImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer - http://imagej.net/User:Rueden On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:20 AM, Gary Aitken <ma...@dreamchaser.org> wrote: > Thanks; > still in need of a clarification... > > >> 1. Is com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb what I want for an archetype? > > > > I cannot comment on whether a good archetype for JAXB exists, since I > > personally have not used it. But perhaps this plugin is all you need: > > http://www.mojohaus.org/jaxb2-maven-plugin/Documentation/v2. > 2/index.html > > That's a big help. > > > I also found this nice blog post which might be close to what you want: > > http://memoverkill.com/2013/09/02/jaxb-maven-xml/ > > > >> 2. What's wrong with the above mvn command to generate the project? > > > > The artifact com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb is not a Maven archetype—just a > regular > > dependency of type JAR. > > ok, I see that if I download the pom. > If I'm looking for an archetype of a particular type, how do I find it? > Do all archetypes have "archetype" in the group or artifact name? > > >> 3. Pointers to how to convert a custom ant task into a maven goal? > > > > You can use the maven-antrun-plugin: > > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/ > > Thanks, that will help > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
