What about the assembly plug-in or shade?
Could they not be used to package up the structure in the "right" way?

Ron
On 20/02/2012 8:02 AM, Stephen Connolly wrote:
Archetypes are initial templates of a project, they just provide an initial
layout and pom, but no build time functionality, and cannot be reapplied.

Plugins provide buildtime actions

> From your initial description, you want the latter... You might, after you
have created your plugin, create an archetype to show how to create/use
your plugin in a project.

- Stephen

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On Feb 20, 2012 12:46 p.m., "ecniv"<vince.leguill...@gmail.com>  wrote:

Hum, plugin is one possibility indeed.

Why not using a custom archetype ? What are the advantages / drawbacks of
each solution (plugin VS archetypes / pom)?


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