Screencast: introducing Wicketstuff Iolite

So without further delay watch the screencast below:

Making a Maven Archetype

So I want to create a maven archetype. My first run at this were a couple of months ago, it were pretty hard but then again I built the archetype from scratch.

I use userlist’s a lot so and though that it were very awkward how I did the previous archetype. So I wrote maven user list asking and theres actually a maven goal for it. So you can create an archetype in 6 steps:

1. Build a project that will act as a template for the archetype
2. run mvn archetype:create-from-project , from the project folder
3. Edit the generated archetype ( placed in target/generated-sources/archetype ), it might not pickup on everything that needs to be substituted.
4. From target/generated-sources/archetype of the project template run mvn install
5. Try the archetype yourself by running mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local from a fresh directory
6. Repeat the process until satisfied

Now this also works for projects consistent of modules, a project structure like below:

Root
|-Core
|-Web

Happy Archetyping:)