I spoke with Wendy on IRC today about fixing some archetypes, but there were some more questions lingering. I'm aiming to fix a few things in the "core" apache archetypes...
I want to try to weave a freshened maven-archetype-j2ee-simple into the new 'sample' directory of trunk's archetype plugin, but I'm a bit puzzled looking at the code. The motivator is that the 1.0 version of the maven-archetype-j2ee-simple is the latest one in central, linked via archetype-catalog.xml (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archetype/trunk/archetype-common/src/main/resources/archetype-catalog.xml?view=markup), but is broken because it is missing the required 'site' directory. I'm seeing buzz about it (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1082012/maven-archetype-j2ee-simple-generates-a-failing-project) that is making Maven look unmaintained (and I try to fix things, when I can) like http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-228 which was created a year ago with no commiter responses. I wasn't seeing the maven-archetype-j2ee-simple in the archetype plugin trunk code. Wendy pointed out it was in the 1.0 branch (http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archetype/branches/archetype-1.0.x/maven-archetype-bundles/) and NOT migrated to trunk (2.0-alpha-4, http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archetype/trunk/) Wendy noted: "It all changed with archetype 2.0 and I don't think all the archetypes came back. now they get generated from samples or something." Can anyone elaborate on the above statement? Any docs/wiki/nabble links on the rewrite and new way to use 'samples'? When I use mvn archetype:generate (2.0-alpha-4) via the interactive CLI menu, it appears to only use the old 1.0 archetypes in the http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-quickstart/ directory, and not the 'samples' that live in the trunk of the archetype plugin code. Where do the new samples live in central and how would I get archetype:generate to use one of those new ones in 'samples', like the 2.0-alpha-4 of quickstart http://github.com/apache/maven-archetype/tree/trunk/archetype-samples/quickstart/ ?
Thanks, Matthew McCullough matthewm AT ambientideas DOT com ------------------ Extra Commentary from the IRC chat: Matthew: So it's in the branch, but not in trunk. How would one fix it? Merge the existing version with fixes over to trunk? Wendy: 1.0 of the archetype you mean? no, trunk is a rewrite. you can patch the branch, but I doubt it will ever be released. figure out how the archetypes work on trunk, and get the j2ee one added back I think it's that 'sample' directory. If you put a sample project there, an archetype gets generated from it. but you'd have to ask. Matthew: The RELEASE that is pointed to by http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/archetype/trunk/archetype-common/src/main/resources/archetype-catalog.xml?view=markup is the 1.0 release of the plugin http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-j2ee-simple/1.0/ Matthew: I'd hate to have anyone take it out of the archetype-catalog.xml so that it doesn't show on the CLI..., but given it isn't currently part of the trunk codebase along with archetype-catalog.xml... Matthew: What's the process/timeline for requesting a release of the archetype plugin? I've recently had a bug-fix patch committed by Brett (ARCHETYPE-272) and I'll get one in tonight to ARCHETYPE-Those two will make archetype look a lot better to my class next week if we could get a release cut.
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