<div>I totally agree. Weld archetypes are probably the best polished ones I have ever seen. They remind me of some of the Rails semantics (get up and running in minutes). </div><div><br></div><div>These similarities got me thinking about another aspect of Rails - Plugins or gems (which I think is a mixed bag). The promise of plugins/gems is that you can quickly add dependent code and do some setup in minutes as well. I think that maven could very well be a platform to do the same. Currently one has to add dependencies by hand and quite often tweak the exclusions. With the introduction of maven console plugin, I think the door became open to create maven plugins/console scripts to make this a more automated process.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't have the expertise to create a prototype. I also don't know if this is really something that could be useful in the community (or simply serve as a tool for Maven newbies).</div><div><br>
</div><div>In any case, I wanted to see what the community thinks about this.</div><div><br></div><div> <br> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Dan Allen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.j.allen@gmail.com">dan.j.allen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The Weld archetype initiative has had a further reaching impact than just the community of developers interested in using CDI (via Weld). A recent blog entry on Sonatype cites the Weld archetypes as "the perfect case study of how using Archetypes benefits the community." Steven is acknowledged for his effort to identify the need of archetypes and ultimately get them promoted to Maven central for all to use.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/maven-archetypes-and-nexus-there-is-no-faster-way/" target="_blank">http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/maven-archetypes-and-nexus-there-is-no-faster-way/</a><br><br>
Although archetypes are rather technically simple, it's important to
recognize the impact they can have by starting people off on the right
foot.<br><br clear="all">-Dan<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br>Dan Allen<br>Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><a href="http://mojavelinux.com" target="_blank">http://mojavelinux.com</a><br>
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