Provide more properties (like current date) that are provided automatically
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Key: ARCHETYPE-63
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-63
Project: Maven Archetype
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 1.0-alpha-3
Reporter: Martin Ahrer
I'm trying to create archetypes that create project templates that need to
refer to properties other than
groupId
artifactId
version
packageName
archetypeGroupId
...
to allow more flexible customization of the templates using velocity. for
example I'm providing a changes.xml with a pre-set release element. this here
refers to a variable $currentDate (like the site plugin provides one) through a
VTL expression.
<release version="1.0" date="$currentDate" description="First
release">
<action dev="xxx" type="add">$currentDate: initial
project setup</action>
</release>
But there might be more auto-properties that one could think of!
* date
* time
* current user
* ...
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