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Mauro Talevi resolved JBEHAVE-574.
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Resolution: Fixed
> Improve documentation on using archetypes
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> Key: JBEHAVE-574
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JBEHAVE-574
> Project: JBehave
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Mauro Talevi
> Assignee: Mauro Talevi
> Fix For: 3.5
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> Based on feedback from Taylor Gautier:
> "Hi,
> Would someone be able to identify the actual steps/syntax required to execute
> a maven archetype to create a project?
> I can't seem to get it to work.
> The documentation here: http://jbehave.org/reference/stable/archetypes.html
> doesn't seem sufficient for a new user to figure out how to make it work - I
> dug around and could not find this archetype catalog file (and why is it
> necessary? This is the first time I've encountered such a thing).
> According to the docs this file is in the "binary" distribution - but what
> exactly is that? In the "downloads" section of the website the links all
> point to maven repositories, as such there does not seem to be a canonical
> "binary" distribution, so it's very unclear - to me at least - which file
> would actually contain this archetype catalog - and I did look around in some
> of the jar files -- for example in the spring archetype jar file the
> following are the only xml files that exist:
> - archetype-resources/pom.xml
> - archetype-resources/src/main/resources/my_steps.xml
> - META-INF/maven/archetype-metadata.xml
> none of which - you will note - is actually called archetype-catalog.xml.
> Also, in jbehave core, the following are the only xml files:
> - META-INF/maven/org.jbehave/jbehave-core/pom.xml
> Other info that is missing: the archetype group id (it's org.jbehave).
> Rather than forcing users to figure everything out on their own by writing
> "you need to specify the usual GAV coordinates" I would humbly suggest that
> maven archetypes are intended for beginners (by definition, not likely to be
> maven experts, not to mention that the word GAV is not a recognized term of
> art in the maven world) and therefore better documentation, with actual
> working examples, would go a long way towards creating a friendly user
> experience.
> For a good example of user documentation with proper working examples, please
> refer to the camel website:
> http://camel.apache.org/camel-maven-archetypes.html
> Thanks,
> Taylor"
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