I work in a large company on a large project with hundreds of services, most of which are Java Maven projects. We have an "archetype" we use for new services. It doesn't use the Maven archetype process. There are particular areas in the pom.xml that is generated that really need to be modified by the developer to reflect their actual application.
We could certainly put comments in the template that tell the developer what sort of changes need to be made, but I wonder if there's any way we can ensure that they notice and handle particular areas of the pom.xml. Just generating a comment with directions isn't enough. I wish there was some way I could ensure that running the build would fail with a specific error message if they haven't dealt with each area. I suppose I could create an XML syntax error in each area that should be addressed, with text near the error that explains what to do, but that seems like a bit of a hack, although it may be the only strategy I can use. Is there a cleaner way to do this sort of thing that I'm not aware of?
