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Ernesto Barreras commented on ARCHETYPE-70:
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I have been trying to create my first archetype and was very surprised that I 
couldn't use arbitrary parameters. I would say that this is almost a must for 
any not very simple archetype.

Ernesto



> Add project description as a mojo parameter
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARCHETYPE-70
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ARCHETYPE-70
>             Project: Maven Archetype
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Plugin
>            Reporter: Michael Heuer
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: patch.txt
>
>
> For my archetype bundle, I require the project description as a parameter.
> I use it in the pom.xml
>   <description>${description}</description>
> in a license HEADER.txt
> /*
>   ${artifactId}  ${description}
>   Copyright ...
> in a package.html
> <html>
>   <body>
>     <p>${description}</p>
>   </body>
> </html>
> and so on.
> The attached patch to MavenArchetypeMojo.java provides a project description 
> parameter in addition to project groupId, artifactId, and version:
> $ mvn -X archetype:create
>     -DgroupId=foo
>     -DartifactId=bar
>     -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT
>     -Ddescription="bar description." ...

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