Hello everyone. Thanks for reading. I'm having some issues while executing an Archetype that I've created (using the Guide to Creating Archetypes). This archetype creates a webapp that already has several components: JSPs, XML files, CSS, JS, and so on, that I need as templates for developing web applications. The problem is that when I execute the mvn archetype:create... Velocity throws a ParseException because of the expressions on the JSP and XML files, such as ${user.unreadMessages>0} or ${var:maxlength}. In the first case is an EL expression and in the second is the declaration of a var for the Validation Framewework. I don't know very much of Apache Velocity, but when it process my files is when it throws the exception, 'cause those are not valid VTL expressions.
¿Does anybody knows how to avoid this problem? Thanks a lot for your help.. Here's a piece of the stacktrace: [ERROR] Parser Exception: archetype-resources/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/conf/validator/validation.xml : org.apache.velocit y.runtime.parser.ParseException: Encountered ":maxlength}\" resource=\"false\" />\r\n <var>\r\n <var-name>maxlength</var-name>\r\n <var-value>" at line 23, column 58. Was expecting one of: "}" ... <DOT> ... at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.generateParseException( Parser.java:3271) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.jj_consume_token( Parser.java:3155) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.Reference(Parser.java :1157) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.Statement(Parser.java :301) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.process(Parser.java :258) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:104) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.parse( RuntimeInstance.java:776) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.parse( RuntimeInstance.java:720) at org.apache.velocity.Template.process(Template.java:123) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.loadResource( ResourceManagerImpl.java:423) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.ResourceManagerImpl.getResource( ResourceManagerImpl.java:341) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.getTemplate( RuntimeInstance.java:831) at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.mergeTemplate( VelocityEngine.java:440) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetype.processTemplate( DefaultArchetype.java:870) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetype.processTemplate( DefaultArchetype.java:730) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetype.processResources( DefaultArchetype.java:777) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetype.processTemplates( DefaultArchetype.java:687) at org.apache.maven.archetype.DefaultArchetype.createArchetype( DefaultArchetype.java:329) at org.apache.maven.plugin.archetype.MavenArchetypeMojo.execute( MavenArchetypeMojo.java:188) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.executeMojo( DefaultPluginManager.java:447) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoals( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:539) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeStandaloneGoal( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:493) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoal( DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:463) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.executeGoalAndHandleFailures (DefaultLifecycleExecutor.jav a:311)