Creating an archetype for a multiple j2ee project

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to create a project that can be used to create mutiple module maven project.

To accomplish this we first need to create a multiple module project. Then create an archetype from that project.

The post details the following steps.

How to use maven to create my base project.

How to generate archetype from my base project.

How to use the archetype to create my multiple project.

Creating base project

run below command to generate base project

 

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=my.project -DartifactId=my-project -Dversion=1.0

 

As you can see we create the base project

cd to my-project and change the pom.xml packaging type to pom

 

cd my-project

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=my.project.base -DartifactId=__rootArtifactId__-base -Dversion=1.0

 

As you can see the artifactId is __rootArtifactId__-base

 

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=my.project.common -DartifactId=__rootArtifactId__-common -Dversion=1.0

 

creating web common project

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DgroupId=my.project.web.common -DartifactId=__rootArtifactId__-web-common -Dversion=1.0

 

create web sub-project

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp -DgroupId=my.project.web -DartifactId=__rootArtifactId__-web -Dversion=1.0

 

 

Generating the archetype from the project

finally we have an maven project already.

the next step is to create a archetype from the project

please execute the below command 

mvn archetype:create-from-project

going to the target  we can find our archetype.

execute mvn install

that is it the archetype now is installed in your repo.