Hi, I would like to bring the Maven archetypes back into the main Struts repository and release them together with the framework, starting with 7.6.0. Details are in WW-5865 [1].
Why: the separate struts-archetypes repository has had no commits since February 2023. It still generates projects for Struts 6.1.1 with javax.servlet, so a Struts 7 user gets a skeleton that does not compile. Nothing in our build exercises the archetypes, which is why they drift. What I propose: - a new "archetypes" module in the main build, versioned and released with Struts - three archetypes only: blank (plain web app), convention (Convention plugin) and a new rest one (REST plugin, reduced from apps/rest-showcase) - existing archetype coordinates kept, so current archetype:generate instructions keep working - each archetype ported to Jakarta EE and Java 17 - a Dockerfile in each generated project (Maven build, then the WAR on Tomcat 10.1 / JRE 17) - an integration test per archetype that generates a project and builds it as part of our build Not carried over: angularjs (AngularJS is end of life), portlet and dbportlet (the Portlet plugin is gone in Struts 7), and starter (depends on SiteMesh and DWR). Once the first release containing the archetypes is out, I would archive the struts-archetypes repository. Any objections or comments? If there are none within 72 hours, I will go ahead. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WW-5865 Regards, Lukasz
