I have two questions about creating a Maven archetype:
1. How do I get my Maven archetype project to show up in the interactive
list of archetypes that appear when running "mvn archetype:generate"? I've
installed my project into my local repository, but when I run that command,
I only see the standard 366 archetypes show up. I am able to generate the
archetype by specifying the archetype identifiers via project properties
(e.g., -DarchetypeArtifactId=my-archetype -DarchetypeGroupId=com.company.my ),
but I was curious how I would get it listed in the main listing. It's not
important that I do so, I'm really just curious at this point what one has
to do.
2. When I generate an instance of my archetype, why does a folder named
after the group I specify as the generated project's groupId appear in
generated project between src/main/webapp/ and the webapp files themselves?
Two pictures are worth two thousand words:
my-archetype/
├── pom.xml
└── src
└── main
└── resources
├── META-INF
│ └── maven
│ └── archetype-metadata.xml
└── archetype-resources
├── pom.xml
└── src
├── main
│ ├── java
│ │ ├── App.java
│ └── webapp
│ ├── WEB-INF
│ │ └── web.xml
│ └── index.jsp
└── test
└── java
└── AppTest.java
testArtifact/
├── pom.xml
└── src
├── main
│ ├── java
│ │ └── testGroup
│ │ ├── App.java
│ └── webapp
│ └── testGroup *<--- why is this here?*
│ ├── WEB-INF
│ │ └── web.xml
│ └── index.jsp
└── test
└── java
└── testGroup
└── AppTest.java
I can see why it might add this for the "main/java" and "test/java"
directories, because Maven might be trying to helpfully insert a Java
package name based on the supplied groupId, but it doesn't make sense (to
me) that it does so for the "webapp" directory. And in my particular case, I
don't even want it for the "java" directories. Is there some way to suppress
this?
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