Hi Jason, Thanks for your fast answer. However, I took a look at the " maven-archetype-quickstart-1.0-alpha-3.jar" in my local repository and I saw no velocity templates... Here where I looked:
%USER_HOME%\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\archetypes\maven-archetype-quickstart\1.0-alpha-3 Is it possible to provide a sample or a link to a velocity template on the online source repository? Thank you in advance, Eric On 9/27/05, Jason van Zyl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 21:49 -0400, Eric Jacob wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The M1 Genapp plugin offers the possibility to define custom parameters > and > > templates... So here my questions about the M2 Archetype plugin: > > > > (1) Does it offer the same possibilities? > > Yes, the templates for a archetype are actually velocity templates so > more flexible then what's in genapp. > > > (2) Is it possible to prompt the user for the parameter's value? > > Archetypes were designed to do that. The parameters can come from > anywhere as long they end up in a Map. The Map is used when rendering > the velocity templates to parameterize the output. > > I would like to do more work on the archetypes in order to provide some > metadata about the parameters for a particular archetype so that better > UI tools can be made. But even with that being the case there is reason > why you couldn't make a UI for the generation of a project from an > archetype. > > > (3) Where should I start to build my own template? > > You can look at the existing archetypes which are simply JARs that > contain velocity templates and some metadata about what is actually in > the archetype. I will add some doco to the getting started guide about > archetypes as I think there is little known about them but they are > going to be highly useful. > > If you follow the current getting started guide and create a project: > > m2 archetype:create -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app -DartifactId=my-app > > This will actually download the archetype to your local maven repository > and you can take a look at it. It will be in: > > $repo/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-quickstart/1.0-alpha-3 > > > (4) Finally, how to add a specific "script/behaviour" to a template in > M2? > > The templates are velocity templates so you get the directives that > velocity provides and you can make your own velocity macros or tools. A > tool is simply a Java object that you drop into a velocity context so > you can really do whatever you want. I would think velocity itself would > give you enough flexibility. > > > Thanks, > > > > Eric > -- > jvz. > > Jason van Zyl > jason at maven.org <http://maven.org> > http://maven.apache.org > > In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational > and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it. > > -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
